On February 7, nearly 600,000 students of grades 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in Ho Chi Minh City returned to schools to study directly after the 2022 Lunar New Year holidays while their peers in the Mekong Delta also started in-person classes.
To assess the level of recovery, and at the same time detect diseases to promptly prevent the post-Covid-19 sequelae, the Ho Chi Minh City Oriental Medicine Association cooperated with Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper and related units to organize a program to jointly take care of people's health after Covid-19.
Junior and senior high schools in Ho Chi Minh City today are going to finish Covid-19 prevention and control tasks, ready to welcome 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th graders back to school for in-person learning. This is to observe the decision of HCMC People’s Committee about allowing students from those grades to enjoy offline learning from January 4, 2022.
Ho Chi Minh City will pilot campus-based learning for ninth and twelve graders in low-risk districts in the middle of December 2021 when the city is prepared for the re-opening of schools, said a leader of the municipal People’s Committee.
Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training Nguyen Van Hieu yesterday said that the city allows people to register to pick up children residing in other provinces and cities back to the southern metropolis.
The Ministry of Education and Training yesterday said that provinces and cities which have not recorded any cases of novel coronavirus will be able to reopen schools as long as schools have finished round of sterilization to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
