Children in China Go Back to School after Three Months at Home (+Video)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Pupils across China went back to school after spending more than three months at home as the country continues to ease coronavirus restrictions.
Tens of thousands of students in their final year of middle and high schools in Shanghai and Guangzhou returned to the campus on Monday while graduating students in high schools in Beijing also resumed classroom study Tuesday.
The news comes as Wuhan, where the global coronavirus pandemic began in December, yesterday discharged its last COVID-19 patient, health officials said.
All schools and universities must impose strict preventative measures to stop the disease from spreading, including giving out free face masks, disinfecting the campus and setting up quarantine areas.
The government of Guangzhou, which has a population of around 15million, had given each of the 208,000 returning students a nucleic acid test before allowing them to step into the school, reported the People's Daily.
The test detects if the person currently has the novel coronavirus.
All schools in Shanghai, the Chinese commercial hub with 24 million people, must adopt new tough rules to prevent a second wave, according to Lu Jing, an official from the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.
School authorities must provide each student and teacher with one face mask every day and disinfect the canteen, dormitories, classrooms, washbasins and bathrooms daily.
Schools must also install screening facilities featuring ultra red thermometers at the gate to monitor students' temperatures when there are more than 100 people on campus.
Nearly 50,000 students who are in their last year of high school resumed their campus life on Monday in 254 schools in the capital city, the People's Daily said.
Schools have re-opened in 30 provinces, autonomous region and cities in China.
More than one million students in 1,127 schools and universities in north-western Qinghai province had already restarted their lessons by April 24.
More than 211,000 coronavirus deaths have been confirmed across the globe -- over a quarter in the United States.
