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Beijing, China – Students wearing masks returned to classes on Tuesday in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the coronavirus emerged last year, when the city opened schools and kindergartens for the first time in seven months.
Almost 1.4 million students resumed their classes in some 2,800 kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools across the city, following the reopening of secondary schools in May.
Students attend the centenary of the founding of Wuhan High School on the first day of the new semester in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, on September 1, 2020. | Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT
State media released images of thousands of students raising the Chinese flag, a daily routine in all public schools, despite warnings to avoid mass gatherings.
Schools have drawn up plans to return to online teaching in case new outbreaks emerge, city officials said last week.
Students were advised to wear masks to and from school and to avoid public buses or trains if possible.
Schools were also ordered to hold drills and training sessions to help prepare for new outbreaks.
Official figures show that Wuhan accounted for 80 percent of the more than 4,600 coronavirus-related deaths in China and was under a strict lockdown for more than two months since the end of January.
The city also conducted a massive testing campaign targeting 11 million residents in May.
Students attend a class at Wuhan High School on the first day of the new semester in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, on Sept. 1, 2020. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT
China has now largely controlled the spread of the virus, and schools across the country, which were closed at the end of January, have gradually reopened.
Shanghai reopened schools in May, and the capital city Beijing, which recently suffered a local outbreak of the virus, said it will resume all schools, including kindergartens, in September.
Beijing authorities require that teachers and students wear face masks on campus.
China has reported no new local transmissions of the coronavirus in recent days.
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