HONG KONG will let some cross-border students from the mainland return to resume classes from Monday, the SAR’s Education Bureau announced Tuesday, in a selective easing of coronavirus border restrictions.
In a statement, the Education Bureau said class resumption for cross-boundary students will be limited to Secondary 3 to 5 at this stage.
To prevent unnecessary social contact with other people and reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection, school buses will be arranged and students will be subject to health checks, including temperature screening and submission of health declaration forms, in Hong Kong and Shenzhen as they commute to school, according to the statement.
These students can be, in principle, exempted from the compulsory quarantine in Hong Kong and centralized quarantine in Shenzhen, according to the statement.
The bureau will soon issue guidelines detailing the class resumption arrangements for Secondary 3 to 5 cross-boundary students, the bureau said in the statement.
Hong Kong reported no new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, with the infection tally standing at 1,107.
(China Daily & Agencies) |