A US public health expert has suggested that reopening of schools in Bangladesh could be considered as "school closure (during COVID-19 pandemic) has clear negative impacts on child health, education and development."

"It should be considered in a policy decision about keeping schools closed or open," Country Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr Michael Friedman told UNB in an interview, saying he would prefer keeping schools open instead of restaurants.

Shedding lights on the global scenario, the expert, having 27 years of work experience in the US and around the world, said the decision-makers have decided to prioritise adults, not the future generation.

https://www.thedailystar.net/country/news/consider-reopening-schools-dont-sacrifice-the-future-cdc-bangladesh-chief-2004085