High school students in Vietnam’s Capital city of Hanoi will stay home until March 15, another week later than previously scheduled, as the city’s first novel coronavirus case was confirmed on Friday.
High school students in the capital city were earlier scheduled to return to school on March 9 onwards while kindergartens, elementary schools and middle schools would remain closed until the end of the week.
However the city’s Party leader Vuong Dinh Hue decided at an urgent meeting Saturday morning that all schools from kindergarten to high school levels in the city will remain closed for another week. VNExpress, a local media reports.
The city plans to broadcast teaching sessions on television from Monday to help ninth grade and 12th grade students, who have to take graduation exams this year, keep up with their programs.
Hanoi recorded Friday night its first coronavirus patient, a 26-year old woman returning from Europe. It was the first case in Vietnam after 22 straight days of recording no new infection.
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