Coronavirus: half-day lessons to be maintained at Hong Kong primary schools, kindergartens as Covid cases rebound
- Secondary schools will still be able to run full-day classes if 90 per cent of students have received two doses of a vaccine and all staff three
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In a letter to teachers, the Education Bureau on Friday said that owing to a rebound in the epidemic, schools’ readiness and health experts’ advice, all primaries and kindergartens in the academic year beginning in September would maintain half-day face-to-face teaching.
Secondary schools will still be able to run full-day classes if 90 per cent of their students have received two doses of a vaccine and all staff have had three.
All students will also still be required to take a daily rapid antigen test before school.
International schools offering a non-local curriculum were told to make reference “in principle” to the document and look out for separate announcements on arrangements for them. They have mostly resumed full-day teaching in classrooms.
Health officials on Friday confirmed 4,428 new Covid-19 infections, including 205 imported ones, as well as four related deaths. The city’s coronavirus tally now stands at 1,372,112 cases, with 9,524 fatalities.