As some reopen, more than 200 S. Korean schools delayed by another week
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South Korea moves ahead with the second phase of school reopening tomorrow with high school juniors, middle school seniors and first and second graders returning to the classrooms.
Kindergartners are set to join as well.
But, with a day ahead of the big opener, more than 200 schools have postponed the planned back to school due to COVID-19 infections in their community.
Education officials are also issuing more detailed guidelines and taking extra prevention measures.
Lee Kyung-eun has the latest.
For some schools, back-to-school has been postponed again.
Seoul's Gangseo-gu District was the first to announce a delay, pushing back school by another week... after a six-year-old kindergartener tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday morning.
Later in the day, more than 2-hundred schools and kindergartens in Seoul, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, and the city of Bucheon followed suit because of cases in their districts.
In case this happens again, the Seoul education office has laid out a set of operational guidelines.
"If someone's infected at a school, we will test everyone who has come in contact with them. And the school will have to shut down for 48 hours to be disinfected.
At Seoul high schools, seniors will go to school everyday, while first and second-year students will alternate one week on, one week off.
As for middle schools, they'll use a 3-week rotation system.
They will not allow extra night-time studying on school premises and they've been advised to cancel mid-terms, given the shortened semester.
Elementary schools are required to open at least one day a week.
Kindergartens, meanwhile, will need to have a nurse, and for that, the city of Seoul will dispatch around 100 nurses to more than 7-hundred kindergartens.
All this is in line with the education ministry's national advice to schools that they limit capacity to two-thirds... by staggering the times they come... or holding classes online at the same time.
On Wednesday, the South Korean government will announce additional guidelines for classrooms on the use of masks and air conditioners.
Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News.
South Korea moves ahead with the second phase of school reopening tomorrow with high school juniors, middle school seniors and first and second graders returning to the classrooms.
Kindergartners are set to join as well.
But, with a day ahead of the big opener, more than 200 schools have postponed the planned back to school due to COVID-19 infections in their community.
Education officials are also issuing more detailed guidelines and taking extra prevention measures.
Lee Kyung-eun has the latest.
For some schools, back-to-school has been postponed again.
Seoul's Gangseo-gu District was the first to announce a delay, pushing back school by another week... after a six-year-old kindergartener tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday morning.
Later in the day, more than 2-hundred schools and kindergartens in Seoul, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, and the city of Bucheon followed suit because of cases in their districts.
In case this happens again, the Seoul education office has laid out a set of operational guidelines.
"If someone's infected at a school, we will test everyone who has come in contact with them. And the school will have to shut down for 48 hours to be disinfected.
At Seoul high schools, seniors will go to school everyday, while first and second-year students will alternate one week on, one week off.
As for middle schools, they'll use a 3-week rotation system.
They will not allow extra night-time studying on school premises and they've been advised to cancel mid-terms, given the shortened semester.
Elementary schools are required to open at least one day a week.
Kindergartens, meanwhile, will need to have a nurse, and for that, the city of Seoul will dispatch around 100 nurses to more than 7-hundred kindergartens.
All this is in line with the education ministry's national advice to schools that they limit capacity to two-thirds... by staggering the times they come... or holding classes online at the same time.
On Wednesday, the South Korean government will announce additional guidelines for classrooms on the use of masks and air conditioners.
Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News.