Nearly 40 percent of students have returned to schools, where classes are resuming in an orderly manner, as the coronavirus epidemic¹ eases in China, the Ministry² of Education said Tuesday.

 

More than 100 million students have resumed classes in Chinese schools as of Monday, accounting³ for 39 percent of all the students nationwide, from kindergartens to universities, said Wang Dengfeng, an official with the ministry, at a press conference.

 

In most of China's provincial-level regions, universities, secondary vocational schools, middle schools and primary schools are resuming classes, according to the official.

 

Strict epidemic control measures will stay following class resumption in schools, Wang stressed, saying that their goal is to facilitate students' return to schools to the utmost while epidemic control rules are well implemented⁴.

 

China will step up training of school staff, students and parents on epidemic prevention and control, he said.

In most of China's provincial-level regions, universities, secondary vocational schools, middle schools and primary schools are resuming classes, according to the ministry.

 

【相关词汇】

常态化疫情防控 regular epidemic prevention and control

保持社交距离 social distancing

实行封闭式管控 to exercise management by sealing off entities

恢复生产生活秩序 to resume work and normal life

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