New Crown Vaccine｜Yang Runxiong: 11 middle schools now apply to resume full-time face-to-face instruction twice as compared with last week

The Education Bureau announced last week that it had received applications from 5 secondary schools to resume full-time face-to-face instruction.

The Secretary for Education, Yeung Run-hsiung, said on social platforms today that as of today, there are 11 secondary schools in Hong Kong who have applied to resume full-time face-to-face classes in individual classes.

The number of schools applying for full-time face-to-face instruction has doubled from last week. Yang Runxiong pointed out that two middle schools will resume full-time face-to-face instruction this week, and the remaining nine plans to start relevant arrangements in the next two weeks.

▼9.1 The opening day of Ho Man Tin Chuangzhi Middle School▼

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The Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases and the Scientific Committee on New Discoveries and Animal Infectious Diseases under the Centre for Health Protection held a joint meeting. Yesterday (16th) it was recommended that young people aged 12 to 17 in Hong Kong only need one shot of Fubitai vaccine.

The Education Bureau immediately updated the arrangements for the resumption of full-time face-to-face classes and non-academic extracurricular activities.

Under the new guidelines, 70% of faculty, staff and adult students received two injections for 14 days, and more than 70% of 12 to 17-year-old students who received a vaccine for 14 days can apply to resume full-time face-to-face instruction. Students should submit their applications based on their school age. Time is the limit.

As for schools that conduct half-day face-to-face classes, for example, individual students aged 12 to 17 have received at least one dose of vaccine for more than 14 days, or students over 18 years of age have completed the second dose of vaccine for more than 14 days.

The school can arrange for the relevant students to spend another half day of school, arranging non-academic extracurricular activities, such as music and sports activities.

The Secretary for Education, Yang Runxiong, said on social platforms that as of today, a total of 11 secondary schools in Hong Kong have applied to resume full-time face-to-face classes at individual levels.

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11 new secondary schools applied for individual classes to resume full-time face-to-face instruction

Yang Runxiong stated on the social media page that as of today, 11 secondary schools in Hong Kong have applied to resume full-time face-to-face classes in individual classes. Two of them will resume full-day face-to-face classes this week, and the remaining 9 are scheduled to be from September 20 to October 4 Relevant arrangements began during the period.

In addition, the Education Bureau also encourages subsequent students who have reached the age of 18 to receive a second dose of the vaccine as soon as possible to enhance the effectiveness of protection.

▼On August 28th, students rushed to get the same day vaccination before the start of school ▼

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