Now is a good time to reopen schools: Ong Ye Kung

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Considering it could be a year or more before a vaccine for Covid-19 is found, and since there are fewer new cases of infection in the community, now is a good time to reopen schools, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung said yesterday. Extended closure of schools would have a...

Mr Ong was speaking to reporters during a visit to Xingnan Primary School in Jurong West yesterday, as schools across Singapore welcomed back some 250,000 students from selected cohorts.

The minister was at a Primary 6 physical education lesson, conducted in the school hall by a teacher wearing a face shield and using a microphone. Across schools, daily face-to-face classes will be conducted only for the graduating cohorts of Primary 6 and Secondary 4 and 5. Staggered recess times and dismissals, daily temperature-taking and wipe-down routines will continue, with new rules such as having teachers and students wear face masks or face shields except when eating and exercising."It's suffocating because you can't really breathe well and it makes you warmer," she said, but added that she and her classmates have been able to cope with the safety measures so far.

 

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