CORONAVIRUS | It’s back to school again for Year One to Year Four students after about four months at home due to the Covid-19 outbreak and for parents who are not able to send or pick up the children from school themselves, the school bus or van may be their only option.

However, the concern among such parents is on congestion, with no seats blocked to ensure social distancing, in school buses or vans, hence, putting their children at risk of being infected by Covid-19, especially with reports on Covid-19 on the rise again in the country.

As such, National Parents-Teacher Associations Consultative Council president Dr Mohd Ali Hassan expressed the need for the Health Ministry (MOH) to review the standard operating procedure (SOP) for school bus operators.

“When it involves children, the SOP should not be relaxed, but...