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Wuhan, Ground zero for Coronavirus epidemic, re-opens all schools

1st-September-2020

BEIJING: Students in face masks returned to class Tuesday in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the Coronavirus first emerged last year, as the city opened schools and kindergarten for the first time in seven months.

Nearly 1.4 million students resumed classes at some 2,800 kindergartens, primary and middle schools across the city, following the re-opening of high schools in May.

State media broadcast images of thousands of students hoisting the Chinese flag - a daily routine at all public schools despite warnings to avoid mass gatherings. Schools have drawn up plans to switch back to online teaching should new outbreaks emerge, city officials said.

China has now largely controlled the spread of the virus, and schools across the country which were closed in late January have gradually re-opened.