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)Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi People’s Committee has agreed with a proposal of themunicipal Departments of Education and Training, Health, and Labour, Invalidsand Social Affairs to continue keeping schools close in response to the spreadof the COVID-19.
Speakingin conclusion of a meeting of the municipal steering committee for COVID-19prevention and fight on March 13, Chairman of the People’s Committee Nguyen DucChung said students in the capital city’s kindergartens, elementary and juniorhigh schools, vocational and regular education centres, and foreign language,computer training centres as well as short-term training facilities will notreturn to class until after March 29.
Meanwhile,senior high school students will stay closed until the end of March 22, andfrom now until then, the municipal authorities will meet to decide the time tolet those students go to school.
Chungsaid the educational institutions need to maintain disinfection work, andcoordinate 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.
Accordingto Deputy Director of the Hanoi Health Department, the city has recorded five casesof COVID-19 so far, who are being treated at the National Hospital for TropicalDiseases.
Atotal of 3,542 having contact with COVID-19 patients are under monitoring atboth hospitals and in the community./.
VNA
