Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to highlight the common symptoms of covid-19 in children that differ from those commonly seen in adults.
Evidence suggests that while children can contract COVID-19, it is less often than adults and appears to take a milder course.
The National Health Service has published general COVID-19 advice on symptoms which is available at the following link:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/symptoms/
The NHS has published specific advice for parents and carers of very young children regarding when to seek medical help if the child has a raised temperature. This is available at the following link:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/symptoms/coronavirus-in-children