(Fighting New Crown Pneumonia) Yunnan: Official response "No teachers and students required to wear masks" Schools take various measures to "prepared for war"
Chinanews.com Kunming, March 19th (Chen Jing) On the 19th, the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education responded to the previous heated discussion caused by "in principle, teachers and students are not required to wear masks on campus," saying that personnel entering the campus must be low risk Under the premise of the crowd, it is not mandatory to wear a mask.
On March 17, a video conference on the start of the spring semester of 2020 in Yunnan and the campus epidemic prevention and control work proposed that "except for emergencies and the types of work that must wear masks, in principle, teachers and students are not required to wear masks on campus."
On the 19th, the staff of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education told the media that they had noticed online disputes over the matter. The staff member said that at present the Ministry of Education has not issued a document requiring teachers and students to wear masks after school. The decision in Yunnan is based on the results of repeated studies of the epidemic situation. There are several prerequisites for low-risk groups, and masks are not mandatory.
The reporter learned from a number of schools that day that all schools are now fully preparing for school.
The related notice issued by Xishan School of Kunming No.1 Middle School stated that high- and medium-risk personnel will not return to school for the time being, and low-risk personnel will normally attend school. Students wear masks on the way back to school to keep their hands sanitary and actively cooperate with body temperature detection. The school will set up a special person to disinfect the carry-on luggage of the students on campus. After school starts, the school's teachers and students implement a group meal catering system. Students eat in the classroom, and each meal is accompanied by a meal teacher.
After receiving the notice of opening, Wuhua District Foreign Language Experimental Primary School of Kunming completed the school's killing without dead ends. At present, the school has received 3,000 masks and 30 temperature guns donated voluntarily by parents to reserve materials for the school. In addition, the school also prepared an isolation room, a UV sterilization machine, 84 kg of disinfectant solution, 150 kg, and 1,000 medical rubber gloves.
The Kunming Education and Sports Bureau previously proposed that the person in charge of the party and government of the school is the first person responsible for the prevention and control of the epidemic and is responsible for the school's epidemic prevention and control. Schools at all levels should implement the disinfection system three times a day, morning, middle, and night on the basis of routine preventive disinfection, strengthen the implementation of school and home inspection “dual tests”, and require parents of students to take temperature tests. (Finish)