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Covid-19: How screening kids for virus will help curb spread
Saman Haziq/Dubai
Reuters
Doctors across the UAE have said that testing kids can play an important role in preventing the virus from spreading.
As India has started implementing the new standard operating procedures for international travellers that includes mandatory Covid RT-PCR test for children of all ages, several expatriates have raised concerns about the “not so comfortable” nasal swab test to be done on infants and children below 10.
Doctors across the UAE have said that testing kids can play an important role in preventing the virus from spreading. Dr Shahid Gauhar, specialist neonatologist and peadiatrician at Prime Hospital, pointed that since studies suggest that children can be silent and fast spreaders of the virus, there is no harm in testing them before exposing them to a larger number of people during air travel.
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