Typhoon Mangkhut: classes at all Hong Kong schools to resume on Wednesday after two days of cleaning and maintenance
City getting back on its feet after most powerful storm on record hit on Sunday
Classes will resume at all Hong Kong schools on Wednesday, according to the Education Bureau, after two days of cleaning and maintenance work on campuses in the aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut.
Issuing a statement at 11.37am on Tuesday, the bureau’s spokesman added that if any school needed to continue to suspend classes, it must seek the advice of the bureau’s regional office and inform teachers, parents and students. Schools had been closed for two days, since Monday.
Any parents who found it too dangerous for their children to go to school could also keep them at home. Schools should not punish pupils who could not attend classes or who were late because of transport reasons, he said.
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Meanwhile, volunteers from the Methodist Church distributed about 10,000 lunchboxes originally meant for schoolchildren to Tai Po residents, especially elderly ones, as classes remained suspended on Tuesday.
A church spokeswoman said a food recycling organisation had told them about the availability of freshly prepared lunchboxes, which had been ordered by schools for their students.
At about 10am, elderly residents began lining up at Tai Po Methodist Kindergarten, where they were given a queue number, so they could return at 11am to collect the food.
The spokeswoman said that as the lunchboxes were meant for pupils, the portions were small, so the volunteers handed out four or five boxes to each resident.
