About 45 thousand children fell ill with coronavirus in Moscow during the entire period of the pandemic, which is about 10% of the total number of cases, said Moscow Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova. “For the entire time of the pandemic, children make up about 10% of all cases. That is about 45 thousand people. About 10% of all children with coronavirus were treated in hospitals. These figures in the total number of cases are minimal, but they tell us that children also have a serious risk of the disease,”she said in an interview with [TASS] (https://tass.ru/interviews/9931567). According to Rakova, there are now about 180 children with coronavirus in Moscow clinics, 11 of them are in intensive care. The vice-mayor noted that the transfer to distance learning of students in grades 6-11 made it possible to halve the proportion of cases in 4 weeks - from 8.9 to 4.3%. According to her, children are 1.5 times more likely to transmit coronavirus to co-living relatives than adults. On October 19, after two weeks of vacation, school [returned] (https://rns.online/society/Sobyanin-obyavil-o-chastichnom-vozobnovlenii-raboti-shkol-v-Moskve-2020-10-14) pupils 1-5 classes. The rest [will continue] (https://rns.online/society/V-Moskve-prodlili-distantsionku-dlya-uchenikov-6-11-klassov-2020-11-05/) distance learning until November 22.
