[Stopping face-to-face teaching] Hong Kong has entered the fifth wave of the epidemic, and the mutant virus Omicron has entered the community. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced today (11th) that primary schools and kindergartens must suspend face-to-face teaching on or before Friday (14th) until the end of the Lunar New Year holiday.
The arrangement for the suspension of classes has been discussed among parents and students for a long time, that is, to see how netizens react!
In view of some recent cases involving young children, although there is no school outbreak chain of transmission, in order to protect school children, the government will implement class suspension arrangements from Friday. Carrie Lam said that today's announcement is to give parents and schools time to prepare, as for middle school students, there is no need to Classes are suspended.
After the news came out, netizens paid attention to the school arrangements for universities, tutoring agencies, and special schools.
At present, some tertiary institutions and private tutoring agencies have changed to online teaching. Parents and students need to check the arrangements of individual institutions.