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High risk of autumn surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths in countries with insufficient vaccination coverage, warns ECDC

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EU/EEA countries that have not yet achieved high enough COVID-19 vaccination coverage in their total populations, which are planning to relax non-pharmaceutical interventions during the next two weeks, run a high risk of experiencing a significant surge of cases, hospitalisations and mortality from now until the end of November.

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COVID-19 in children and the role of school settings in transmission - second update

Technical report -

The aim of this document is to provide an update on the knowledge surrounding the role of children in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the role of schools in the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing in particular on the experience in EU/EEA countries since the beginning of the pandemic. This document also addresses transmission to and from staff in school settings, school-related mitigation measures including risk communication, testing, contact tracing, and the effectiveness and impacts of school closures.

COVID-19 in children and the role of school settings in transmission - second update - EN - [PDF-1.23 MB]

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Objectives for COVID-19 testing in school settings

Technical report -

The aim of this document is to provide an overview of major aspects of testing, contact tracing, contact identification and contact follow-up in school settings within the EU/EEA countries and the United Kingdom (UK).

Objectives for COVID-19 testing in school settings (first update) - EN - [PDF-479.1 KB]

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Rapid risk assessment: Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome and SARS -CoV-2 infection in children

Risk assessment -

Several countries affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic recently reported cases of children that were hospitalised in intensive care due to a rare paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS). The presenting signs and symptoms are a mix of the ones for Kawasaki disease (KD) and toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and are characterised, among others, by fever, abdominal pain and cardiac involvement. A possible temporal association with SARS-COV-2 infection has been hypothesised because some of the children that were tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection were either positive by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or serology.

Rapid risk assessment: Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome and SARS -CoV-2 infection in children - EN - [PDF-862.24 KB]

The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

Peer-Reviewed Publication
Nov 2019 - Lancet - 394(10211):1836-1878

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