To infuse new hope and bring back normalcy for children in the New Year, a diverse group of individuals have launched a campaign. The initiative—Happy 2022, Happy for Kids too—primarily focuses on the immediate resumption of physical classes for all children.

Started by parents, teachers, educationists, doctors, epidemiologists and many citizens, the campaign’s slogan reads “Join the Chain-for-Children’s-Cheer”. Its backers say children have been deprived of too many activities that are integral to their lives amid the Covid pandemic. They have also demanded no disruptive social distancing for kids, no emergency-use jabs for kids and no Covid testing for asymptomatic kids. The campaign aims to put together interviews with children, parents and doctors and scientific material to educate the public on the harms being caused to children as part of Covid response.