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(Redesigns with IKEA closure)
SHANGHAI, Aug 14 (Reuters) – China’s Shanghai monetary center said on Sunday it would reopen all schools, adding kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, on Sept. 1 after months of COVID-19 closures.
The city will require all teachers and academics to be tested for nucleic acid for the coronavirus every day before leaving campus, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission said.
It also called on teachers and academics to conduct a 14-day “self-health management” in the city before the school reopens, the commission said in a statement.
Shanghai shut everything down in mid-March ahead of the city’s two-month shutdown to combat its worst COVID outbreak in April and May.
This allowed some of the best college and school students to return to elegance in June, while many others continued from home for the rest of the semester.
The announcement of the reopening of schools brings great relief to many residents, but fears about COVID closures persist, as China commits to sticking to its zero-momentum policy that requires all instances and their close contacts to be quarantined.
On Saturday, videos circulating on Chinese social media showed consumers passing security guards and panicking out of an IKEA mall in downtown Shanghai when an ad sounded in its audio formula saying the mall was closed due to COVID contact tracing.
Reuters has not been able to independently verify the authenticity of the videos, but IKEA’s visitor service said on Sunday that the mall had been closed due to COVID restrictions. IKEA did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment.
Shanghai, China’s most populous city, on Saturday reported five new local COVID infections, all asymptomatic, while 2,467 transmitted cases were reported across the country.
It eliminated its weekly COVID-19 testing requirement and eliminated loose testing until the end of September in an effort to combat the virus, the government said Saturday.
The southern province of Hainan is now the hardest-hit region in China, with 494 symptomatic cases and 846 asymptomatic cases reported on Saturday.
Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan suggested that Hainan succeed in 0 instances at the network point as soon as possible when she inspected several locations on the island, adding Sanya Phoenix International Airport on Saturday, state media reported. (Reporting through Zhang Yan and Brenda Goh; Edited through William Mallard, Michael Perry and Jacqueline Wong)