Mr. Pham Xuan Tien, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training, said that the Department proposed after agreeing on expertise with the Department of Health and realizing the complicated developments of the acute respiratory infection epidemic caused by corona virus.
Hanoi students had an 8-day break for Tet Canh Ty, from January 22 to 29.
On February 2, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training decided to give students a week off (from February 3 to 9) to prevent the corona epidemic according to the city’s direction.
Hanoi students wear masks during class on January 31.
As of February 6, Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Thap, Quang Ngai, Dong Nai, and Lai Chau have extended the leave for students from preschool to high school for another week, ending February 16.
At a press conference on the afternoon of February 5, Minister, Head of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung, assessed that it was very necessary for localities to let students off school in the past few days, helping schools have time to clean and disinfect.
According to Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Huu Do, in the school year plan, each semester the Ministry sets aside a week for students to make up study time.
For higher education, more than 100 schools have adjusted their return-to-study schedules until the end of this week.
In the vocational school sector, 895 school facilities let students off until February 9 to prevent the nCoV epidemic.
This is the first time that provinces and universities have allowed pupils and students to leave school due to an infectious epidemic.
The acute pneumonia epidemic caused by nCoV started in Wuhan in December 2019, then spread to all 31 provinces and cities in China.
The World Health Organization on January 31 declared a global emergency.
Duong Tam