Wuhan, ground zero for COVID-19 epidemic, reopens all schools

BEIJING: Students in face masks returned to class on Tuesday in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where COVID-19 first emerged last year, as the city opened schools and kindergartens for the first time in seven months.

Nearly 1.4 million students resumed classes at around 2,800 kindergartens, primary and middle schools across the city, following the reopening of high schools in May.State media broadcast images of thousands of students hoisting the Chinese flag - a daily routine at all public schools - despite warnings to avoid mass gatherings.

Students at the 100th anniversary of the founding of Wuhan High School on the first day of the new semester in the city in China's central Hubei province AFP/STRSchools have drawn up plans to switch back to online teaching should new outbreaks emerge, city officials said last week.Elementary school students arrive on the first day of the new semester in Wuhan AFP/STRSchools were also ordered to conduct drills and training sessions to help prepare for new outbreaks.

Official figures show Wuhan accounted for 80 per cent of China's more than 4,600 coronavirus-related deaths and was under a strict lockdown for more than two months from late January.China has now largely controlled the spread of the virus, and schools across the country - which were closed in late January - have gradually reopened.

Shanghai reopened schools in May, and the capital city Beijing, which recently suffered from a local outbreak of the virus, said it will resume all schools including kindergartens in September.China has not reported any new local transmissions of the coronavirus in recent days.

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