Beijing’s back-to-school plan on hold as more coronavirus cases found
- Authorities say two colleagues at a meat testing centre have been diagnosed with Covid-19, a day after the capital reported its first local case in 55 days
- Education authorities tell younger students to put off return to class as city goes on alert for second wave
Municipal authorities in the Chinese capital have closed markets and postponed plans to reopen schools after two more local coronavirus cases were reported in Beijing on Friday.
Zhang Jie, deputy chief of Beijing’s Fengtai district, said the two new patients lived in the district and worked at theChina Meat Research Centre, a meat testing facility.
Education authorities immediately stopped plans to resume class for younger primary school pupils. Children attending kindergarten and the first three grades of primary school were originally scheduled to return to class on Monday, but now must stay at home.
Older students, who are already back to school, should be prepared for “adjustment”, depending on conditions, according to the authorities.
Xicheng district resident Wang Yunying said her third-grader had been excited to finally return to school.
