US health officials are campaigning to vaccinate more children as coronavirus threatens to disrupt the autumn return to classrooms after a school year scarred by the pandemic.
Doctors across the country are seeing increasing numbers of children in hospital due to Covid-19. Many say that adolescents, like adults infected by the highly transmissible Delta variant, are presenting symptoms sooner compared to previous stages of the pandemic. Officials are urging jabs for eligible children to slow down the contagion.
Parents and teachers are gearing up for a mass resumption of in-person teaching next month after many youth logged on to virtual classes at least part of the time in the last school year.