According tounified arrangements of the local COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and ControlHeadquarters, about 26,000 8thgrade students in 136 junior middleschools has returnedto school, which is the 3rdbatch of students in Yichang since the senior high school students and 9thgrade students went back to school in an orderly and stable way.
With the increasing number of students returning, Yichang government has promoted the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism into “wartime footing”, which means that each school would focus on the rush hour, key places, and key crowds to build a safe environmentduring this period.
At present, the local Educational Bureau organized nucleic acid tests for teaching staff in three grades to prepare students’ resumption, tests covering 2,421 teaching staff of 8th grade were completed yesterday and results were all negative. (Apprentice reporter Zheng Yan and correspondent Zhang Lilei)