{"id":31863,"date":"2020-08-24T00:16:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=31863"},"modified":"2020-08-24T00:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:46:14","slug":"who-says-children-aged-12-and-over-should-wear-masks-like-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=31863","title":{"rendered":"WHO Says Children Aged 12 and Over Should Wear Masks Like Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Health Organization (WHO) said children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults, while children between six and 11 should wear them on a risk-based approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Children aged 12 and over should particularly wear a mask when a one-metre distance from others cannot be guaranteed and there is widespread transmission in the area, the WHO and the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) said in a document on the WHO website dated Aug. 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether children between six and 11 should wear masks depends on a number of factors, including the intensity of transmission in the area, the child\u2019s ability to use the mask, access to masks and adequate adult supervision, the two organisations said.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) said children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults, while children between six and 11 should wear them on a risk-based approach. Children aged 12 and over should particularly wear a mask when a one-metre distance from others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}