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In Asia, China's "zero Covid" policy benefits the French school in Singapore

2022-09-26T16:24:05.458Z


REPORT - The establishment is moving forward again, in particular thanks to the reception of students from mainland China and Hong Kong.


Special Envoy to Singapore

Emmanuel Bonin savors the good news.

The quarantine for arrivals in Hong Kong is finally lifted

.

“It's a relief”,

confides to

Figaro

the new director of the French high school.

The authorities are loosening the epidemic vice after two years of merciless struggle, which have pushed many expatriate families to leave the former British colony, exhausted by controls, and sometimes the separation of parents from their children.

Just arrived from Shanghai, where he went through the relentless confinement imposed by Beijing last spring, Emmanuel Bonin hopes that the “zero Covid” page has finally been turned, to stop the bleeding that is hitting international schools in mainland China and in Hong Kong.

“The start of the school year went better than we feared.

There is the joy of the students to find themselves, after two rather agonizing years, ”

explains the headteacher.

It was time.

2,530 students passed through the doors of the four high school campuses, i.e.…

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Source: lefigaro

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