Hanoi is battling the fourth wave of COVID-19 infections since late April which has caused adverse effects on the city's business and production and people’s life.
The education sector has exerted efforts in curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and fulfilling tasks in the 2020-2021 academic year, despite various difficulties, according to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET).
More than 11,000 students have registered for the second round of the national high school graduation examination, which is scheduled for August 6-7, said Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Huu Do.
The northern province of Bac Giang, which was the country’s biggest COVID-19 hotspot, is returning to normal after it basically put the pandemic under control.
The Ministry of Health will mobilise about 10,000 medical workers to aid Ho Chi Minh City in the COVID-19 pandemic, Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said on July 7.
The high school graduation exam will begin on July 7 morning for millions of students, with strict COVID-19 measures in place as the fourth wave of infections has seen complicated developments.
Deputy Director of the Hanoi Health Department Tran Van Chung warned of a high risk of COVID-19 infection in the community, especially the outbreak in Dong Anh district where new cases had close contacts with many people.
Additional 248 new COVID-19 cases were added to the national tally in the past six hours to 12:00pm on July 6, raising the caseload to 21,560, according to the Health Ministry.
Localities are quickly finishing their preparations for the national high school graduation exam to implement the dual goal – ensuring safety for candidates during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring a serious and fair exam.
Ho Chi Minh City aims to take samples from five million people by July 5 for COVID-19 screening as more and more people are found to be infected thanks to screening at hospitals, according to its People’s Committee.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered authorities of Ho Chi Minh City and surrounding localities in the southern key economic region to take the initiative to realise the dual targets in a flexible method as COVID-19 situations remain complicated.
Ho Chi Minh City will go ahead with national high school graduation exams for more than 88,000 students on July 7-8 based on the Ministry of Education and Training’s schedule despite growing COVID-19 outbreaks, according to its Department of Education and Training.
The results achieved in pandemic prevention and control are very positive and need to be further promoted, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a national teleconference on COVID-19 prevention and control on June 21.
Localities nationwide have prepared various scenarios to hold 10th-grade entrance exams for students amid the COVID-19 outbreak, with some planning to hold the exams on schedule and others set to postpone them.
University and school students from more than 30 cities and provinces nationwide on May 10 entered the second week of online studying since their schools were shut on May 4 due to the serious ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks.
Human resources bear decisive significance to the cause of national construction and development, and education plays a very important role in human resources development, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a working session with the Ministry of Education and Training on May 6.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 5 presided over the Government’s April meeting, which was the first meeting of the Cabinet after it completed the personnel work last month.
The Indonesian Government has decided to ban crowds congregating to celebrate Christmas 2020 and New Year 2021 in public places to prevent a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.
The 2019-2020 school year was a special year for the education-training sector when the COVID-19 pandemic posed numerous difficulties, but the sector had managed to finish the academic year with success, according to Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha.
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