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HCM City: Kindergarten, primary school students back to school

More than one million kindergarten, primary school and sixth grade students in Ho Chi Minh City returned to classrooms on February 14 morning after nine months of COVID-19-induced online learning.
HCM City: Kindergarten, primary school students back to school ảnh 1Students at HCM City's Duc Nghia Primary School on the first day of school reopening. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – More than one million kindergarten,primary school and sixth grade students in Ho Chi Minh City returned to classrooms onFebruary 14 morning after nine months of COVID-19-induced online learning.

The students, who have yet to get vaccinated against COVID-19, are the last allowed to attend in-person classes in the city. Meanwhile, 7th to 12th graders began returning to school a week ago.

Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Duong AnhDuc visited Nguyen Dinh Chieu Primary School in Binh Chanh district on thefirst day of reopening to check the school’s COVID-19 prevention and control facilities and encourage students and teachers here.

Duc urged the teachers to provide detailed guidance onCOVID-19 prevention for parents in a proper way so they can send their children back to school without fear orworry.

According to the municipal Department of Education andTraining, more than 80 percent of parents of primary school students and nearly 70percent of those whose kids are 3 – 6 years old have registered for back-to-schoolscheme which is currently made non-mandatory by local authorities.

Those who continue their study at home will completeall assignments remotely under their teachers’ instructions./.
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