Coronavirus: Hong Kong school pupils to be kept a metre apart, with half-day classes
- If the local health crisis continues to ease, students could start to return to campuses in phases from week of May 25
- But officials look to ensure infection-control measures are in place before things get back to normal
Hong Kong school pupils will have to stay about a metre apart from each other and will only attend classes for half a day should face-to-face lessons resume as expected by the end of May, the Post has learned.
Some 900,000 kindergarten and school pupils have been out of classes since early February amid the coronavirus pandemic, with most switching to online learning.
Sources told the Post that, should the local health crisis continue to ease, senior secondary students would be the first batch to return to campuses on the week of May 25, following the completion of Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams.
They would be followed by younger secondary and older primary school pupils, who could resume classes in June by the earliest.
But most universities would continue to conduct online lessons until the current semester ended in May, while alternative forms of assessments such as online exams would be carried out.
Hong Kong has chalked up 15 consecutive days without any new local infections, while one imported case of Covid-19 was reported on Monday. The infection total remained at 1,040, with four related deaths.