Students in Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi will return to school from today (May 04) after an over three-month break due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
The decision was made by Chairman of Hanoi’s People Committee Nguyen Duc Chung last week.
Specifically, secondary school and high school classes will welcome students back from May 4 while those of kindergarten and elementary schools will return on May 11.
Earlier, Ho Chi Minh City announced that its ninth and 12th graders will return to school on May 4 to finish their second semester before the high school entrance and high school graduation exams respectively in late July and early August, daily newspaper vietnam News reported.
Students in other grades between four and 11 in Ho Chi Minh City will start on May 8, those in grades one to three on May 11, and those in kindergartens and nurseries on May 18 at the latest, Vietnam News Agency agency reported.
No new coronavirus cases or deaths being reported in Vietnam on Monday.
This marked the 18th straight day of no new new community-based in Vietnam.
The latest case reported yesterday is a British expert, who arrived in HCMC this week to work on a project of Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petro Vietnam).
He arrived Vietnam on April 28 by a private jet with 12 others. After landing at Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCMC, he and the others were immediately quarantined.
So far, 219 patients in Vietnam have made a full recovery, although there have been 14 relapses. There have still been no new community-based infections for 18 days.
More than 30,000 people are quarantined in the country – 246 suspected patients in hospitals specialized for Covid-19 treatment, over 5,700 at centralized facilities and the rest at home.
Coronavirus spread to Vietnam on 23 January 2020, when its first known case of COVID-19 was reported. As of 04 May 2020 the country had 271 confirmed cases with no deaths. More than 261,000 tests have been performed. Hanoi is currently the most-affected city with 112 confirmed cases.