HOLIDAY, BUT MAKE IT SAFE
After being locked down for the better part of a year, taking a festive season holiday can be considered essential for our mental health. “It’s important to emphasise that for families and their mental well-being, getting away from their environment is something that they can – and should – do. There are a lot of benefits to this, but not at the expense of potentially putting themselves at unnecessary risk,” says Dr Gary Reubenson, a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases at Wits University’s Department of Paediatrics and Child Health.
It has been published that Covid-19 doesn’t affect children that severely, so the risk to children and young adults is lower than it
