'When can we hug our friends and family again?' Dr Radha Modgil answers questions sent in from children, on how we can try and cope during these difficult times
The virus could affect millions of people around the world soon. The UK government says, in its latest plans, that up to a fifth of workers could be off sick at the peak of an epidemic, with school closures possible.
"Be clear that you don't know all of the answers but that there are people making decisions for us who have all the information they need." "You could tell them it's 'a bit like feeling sore', so they get to see it's not as dreadful as they might believe," Jon Gilmartin, a speech language therapist at the children's communication charity I Can, says.
Dr Rudkin advises honesty over the argument"we will all die eventually but chances are not until we are really, really old"."But we can talk about it with a smile and use humour, or at least a lightness of touch, that doesn't then plummet our children into an existential pit they really don't need to be in, until they're 13 at least," she adds.
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