Educational institutions need to maintain disinfection work, and coordinate with families to monitor students’ health during the school closure, while utilizing suitable forms to help students study at home, according to Chairman of the People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung. (Photo: VNA)

Speaking in conclusion of a meeting of the municipal steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and fight on March 13, Chairman of the People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said students in the capital city’s kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools, vocational and regular education centres, and foreign language, computer training centres as well as short-term training facilities will not return to class until after March 29.

Meanwhile, senior high school students will stay closed until the end of March 22, and from now until then, the municipal authorities will meet to decide the time to let those students go to school.

Chung said the educational institutions need to maintain disinfection work, and coordinate with families to monitor students’ health during the school closure, while utilizing suitable forms to help students study at home.

Earlier, Hanoi decided to televise lessons of key subjects for ninth and 12th graders, helping them keep up with coursework.

According to Deputy Director of the Hanoi Health Department, the city has recorded five cases of COVID-19 so far, who are being treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

A total of 3,542 having contact with COVID-19 patients are under monitoring at both hospitals and in the community.

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The decision will be applied to students of all kindergartens, schools, and universities in the country's southern hub.

Additionally, the city authorities also assigned the city's Department of Education and Training and the Department of Health to consider the epidemic situation to issue the back-to-school day and give instructions of preventive measures to schools.

Earlier the municipal Department of Education and Training on March 11 sent a proposal on providing free face masks to teachers and students in three months to the city People's Committee. It is one of preparation steps for back-to-school date.

On March 8, the city’s government allowed 12th-grade students to return to schools from March 16 while kindergarteners, first to 11th-grade students, and those enrolled in information technology and foreign language centers or tutoring and life skills education centers would stay home until the end of March.

Schools will not be permitted to organize studying activities in the first day back to school, but travelling and health check-ups for students and the entire staff.

At present, HCMC has a total number of more than 2.4 million students in kindergarteners; primary, secondary and to high schools, universities and vocational schools. VNA/SGGP

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