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Schools to reopen in HCM City in early March

February 25, 2021 by en.qdnd.vn

All schools in Vietnam’s biggest southern hub have been closed since February 2, a week before the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the city. Students have shifted to online learning since then.

In the notice, the committee ordered the city’s Departments of Education and Training; Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs; and Health to jointly issue guidelines on COVID-19 preventive measures to ensure safety for students at schools.

It also requested that all students, teachers, and school staff complete health declarations on a daily basis, while educational institutions are responsible for telling students returning from or traveling to pandemic-hit areas to notify local medical units to receive health check-ups and monitoring.

The municipal Department of Education and Training previously issued a document guiding local educational institutions in rigorously enforce precautionary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including cancelling all extra-curricular activities.

As of February 24, the city has gone through 13 days without any new community transmissions of the coronavirus.

Source: VNA

Schools in HCMC to be reopened on March 1

February 24, 2021 by english.thesaigontimes.vn

Schools in HCMC to be reopened on March 1

The Saigon Times

A security guard checks the body temperature of a student. Students in HCMC will return to school on March 1 – PHOTO: PLO

HCMC – More than 1.74 million students in HCMC will return to school from March 1 after a long break due to the resurgence of Covid-19.

The municipal government made the decision on February 24, asking the Department of Education and Training to coordinate with the Department of Health to instruct schools to take measures to ensure safety for students and teachers, the local media reported.

Schools must ask students and trainees returning to the city from Covid-19-hit areas or having visited these areas to make health declarations.

Those who deliberately make dishonest health declarations or fail to comply with quarantine regulations will be addressed in line with the law. In addition, the municipal government required schools to direct their students, teachers and employees to declare their health conditions online on a daily basis.

The HCMC government had earlier decided to allow students to stay home and study online after the Tet holiday.

On February 23, the municipal Department of Education and Training proposed the resumption of schools in the city from March 1.

As of February 19, the local education sector reported a student infected with Covid-19, 74 students and teachers having direct contact with Covid-19 patients, 361 students and teachers having indirect contact with patients and 2,680 students and teachers returning from Covid-19-stricken areas.

Meanwhile, the entire city has confirmed 210 Covid-19 cases, with 193 of them having recovered from the disease and 17 others being treated. In addition, the city is quarantining more than 1,300 people at centralized quarantine centers and 524 others at home.

Hanoi school target March 2 reopening

February 24, 2021 by dtinews.vn

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training has recommended local schools should reopen from March 2.

Under the proposal sent to the municipal people’s committee, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training said that if there are no locally-infected Covid-19 cases by March 2, then local schools could reopen. It means that Hanoi would have witnessed no community transmission patients for 14 days by then.

Schools in Hanoi may be re-opened from March 2

According to the Hanoi Centre for Disease Control, Hanoi has seen no new Covid-19 cases since February 17. People who are being quarantined in Hanoi after coming into close contact with Covid-19 patients have tested negative for the virus or have not shown any suspected symptoms.

Despite positive signs, the Hanoi Centre for Disease Control advised local residents to strictly conform to Covid-19 prevention regulations.

Meanwhile, HCM City has decided to allow local students to return schools from March 1.

By February 22, 51 cities and provinces in Vietnam had reopened their schools.