Appendix Appendix A: Search strategies for literature review Embase search strategy 1. school/ or high school/ or kindergarten/ or middle school/ or nursery school/ or primary school/ 2. School*.tw,kw,dq. 3. ((primary or secondary or elementary or privat* or state or mainstream) adj2 education*).tw,kw,dq. 4. (reception or preschool* or kinder* or prekinder* or nurser*).tw,kw,dq. 5. (sixth-form or form-six or post16 or post-16 or grade-12 or grade12 or year-12 or year12).tw,kw,dq. 6. teacher/ or teaching assistant/ 7. (teacher* or teaching* or educator* or pupil or pupils or student* or headmaster* or headmistress* or principal*).tw,kw,dq. 8. (education* adj (setting* or workforce or worker* or staff* or practitioner* or personnel or employee*)).tw,kw,dq. 9. ((early-year* or early-childhood or early-learning or child-care or childcare or day-care or daycare or learning-disab* or special) adj2 (education* or centre* or center* or setting* or workforce or worker* or staff* or practice or practitioner* or personnel or employee*)).tw,kw,dq. 10. school health service/ or school health nursing/ 11. (school* adj2 nurs*).tw,kw,dq. 12. or/1-11 13. exp coronavirinae/ 14. exp Coronavirus infection/ 15. SARS coronavirus/ 16. severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2.hw. 17. coronavirus-disease-2019.hw. 18. ((corona* or corono*) adj1 (virus* or viral* or virinae*)).tw,kw,dq. 19. (coronavirus* or coronovirus* or coronavirinae* or CoV or HCoV*).tw,kw,dq. 20. (2019-nCoV or 2019nCoV or nCoV2019 or nCoV-2019 or COVID-19 or COVID19 or CORVID-19 or CORVID19 or WN-CoV or WNCoV or HCoV-19 or HCoV19 or 2019-novel* or Ncov or n-cov or SARS-CoV-2 or SARSCoV-2 or SARSCoV2 or SARS-CoV2 or SARSCov19 or SARS-Cov19 or SARSCov-19 or SARS-Cov-19 or Ncovor or Ncorona* or Ncorono* or NcovWuhan* or NcovHubei* or NcovChina* or NcovChinese* or SARS2 or SARS-2 or SARScoronavirus2 or SARS-coronavirus-2 or SARScoronavirus-2 or SARS-coronavirus2 or SARScoronovirus2 or SARS-coronovirus-2 or SARScoronovirus-2 or SARS-coronovirus2).tw,kw,dq. 21. (respiratory* adj2 (symptom* or disease* or illness* or condition*) adj10 (Wuhan* or Hubei* or China* or Chinese* or Huanan*)).tw,kw,dq. 22. ((seafood-market* or food-market* or pneumonia*) adj10 (Wuhan* or Hubei* or China* or Chinese* or Huanan*)).tw,kw,dq. 23. ((outbreak* or wildlife* or pandemic* or epidemic*) adj1 (Wuhan* or Hubei or China* or Chinese* or Huanan*)).tw,kw,dq. 24. (CoV2 or CoV-2 or COVID-2019 or COVID2019).tw,kw,dq. 25. or/13-24 26. 12 and 25 27. limit 12 to covid-19 28. 26 or 27 29. limit 28 to yr="2020 -Current
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