The mutant virus Omicron has entered Hong Kong, detonating the fifth wave of the epidemic, and the invisible transmission chain still threatens the community.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced that all child care centres, kindergartens and primary schools in Hong Kong must stop face-to-face classes on or before Friday (14th) until after the Lunar New Year holiday.
Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced that primary schools and kindergartens will be closed until after the Lunar New Year holiday.
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Lin Zhengyue-ngor pointed out that the school can start the holiday as soon as tomorrow, and hope that online teaching can continue. Because some primary school principals said that it would take time to prepare, they reserved two or three days, so the line was drawn on Friday, and the class suspension arrangement will be until the lunar calendar. After the New Year's holiday, "in other words, take the New Year's holiday two weeks earlier."
She continued that secondary schools will continue to teach face-to-face at this stage, and believes that secondary school students have strong self-care ability, which is still a safe approach.
Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor described the decision to suspend classes as a difficult decision, but due to the multiple cases of confirmed cases among young children, teachers and classmates had to go to the quarantine center.
She pointed out that seeing the invisible chain of transmission in the community, more children were infected. In addition, the outbreak of upper respiratory tract infection in schools in recent months, most of them were in kindergartens or elementary schools, and the symptoms were difficult to distinguish, so this decision was made.
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When asked if the decision to suspend classes came too late, Carrie Lam disagreed, pointing out that class suspensions have obvious consequences. Some education circles and principals still do not want to suspend classes, and each time they have to measure, "Is there a place to go?" She said that at present, It is more appropriate to suspend face-to-face teaching, which can protect children from infection and quarantine as close contacts.
She also mentioned that she will submit experts to discuss how to reduce the vaccination age of Sinovac to 5 to 11 years old. Everyone will wait for the injection." After the resumption of classes after the Lunar New Year, a vaccination team will be sent to the school for injections, and the Secretary for Education and the Secretary for the Civil Service will be asked to make joint arrangements.
Cathay Pacific flight attendants and mothers caused 5 chains of transmission in the Omicron group.
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