{"id":7519,"date":"2020-09-02T15:14:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2020-09-02T15:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:14:52","slug":"common-cold-covid-19-symptoms-for-parents-carers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/2020\/09\/02\/common-cold-covid-19-symptoms-for-parents-carers\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cold\/COVID-19 Symptoms  &#8211; for Parents\/Carers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Common Cold and COVID-19 Symptoms<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Please see attached letter from Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director, Scottish Government to all parents and carers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/taylor\/uploads\/sites\/25431\/2020\/09\/01195046\/Coronavirus-Jason-Leitch-Letter.pdf\">Coronavirus &#8211; Jason Leitch Letter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/p.kindpng.com\/picc\/s\/49-496363_transparent-sick-person-png-png-download.png\" alt=\"Sick PNG Images, Free Transparent Sick Download - KindPNG\" width=\"101\" height=\"124\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This letter provides advice to parents and carers on key differences between symptoms of the coronavirus and the common cold and how to manage minor illnesses which are common at this time of year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The number of positive COVID-19 cases among school age children remains very low. The Government believes that slots for testing for COVID-19 maybe being used by children who are self-isolating with the common cold, a virus which often circulates when schools return.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pngmart.com\/files\/12\/Sick-Emoji-Transparent-Background.png\" alt=\"Sick Emoji Transparent Background | PNG Mart\" width=\"117\" height=\"117\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The letter from the National Clinical Director, Jason Leitch, is designed to provide reassurance to parents and carers and to help them avoid unnecessary absences from school on the part of their children.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 We<\/span>\u00a0hope you find it helpful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Thank you for you cooperation and understanding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/m.hindustantimes.com\/rf\/image_size_1200x900\/HT\/p2\/2020\/03\/06\/Pictures\/_d6238ac6-5f69-11ea-ab89-cb4d4e6220f6.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus: How it is different from seasonal flu and common cold - world news - Hindustan Times\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Cold and COVID-19 Symptoms Please see attached letter from Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director, Scottish Government to all parents and carers. Coronavirus &#8211; Jason Leitch Letter This letter provides advice to parents and carers on key differences between symptoms of the coronavirus and the common cold and how to manage minor illnesses which are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions\/7534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}