(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Schools in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province Suspend Enrollment

  China News Service, Zhangzhou, September 16 (Zhang Jinchuan) In response to the sudden local epidemic in Fujian, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province issued an emergency notice on the 16th, clarifying that the city’s primary schools and kindergartens will continue to temporarily defer admission to schools and implement online teaching. The specific return time will be separately notify.

  This is an adjustment made by the education department of Zhangzhou City in accordance with the needs of epidemic prevention and control to further improve the city's school epidemic prevention and control work to ensure the health of teachers and students and campus safety.

  According to the emergency notice issued by the education system of Zhangzhou City, Zhangzhou City promptly adjusted the method and time of the combination of online and offline teaching in the city's schools, and coordinated the education, teaching and epidemic prevention and control.

The specific matters are as follows:

  1. The city’s primary schools and kindergartens continue to postpone their admission to schools and implement online teaching. The specific return time will be notified separately.

  2. The city's vocational schools and middle schools will temporarily postpone their admission to school from September 17th and switch to online teaching. The specific return time will be notified separately.

Whether to start online teaching in the third grade of senior high school, the local schools will put forward a plan according to the specific situation and report to the local epidemic prevention and control headquarters for approval.

  3. Students in boarding schools must complete nucleic acid testing before leaving school; students in non-boarding schools will still return to school for nucleic acid testing at the scheduled time.

  4. Students from boarding schools in Putian, Xiamen, and Quanzhou where the students originate (including their actual residence) will not leave the school temporarily. The school must do a good job in on-campus online teaching, service guarantee, and humanistic care.

  5. Objects who have adopted the above management measures for health monitoring will still be managed in situ according to the original measures, and will be implemented according to the above requirements after they are lifted.

  6. All-citizen-run schools should also be implemented with reference to public schools.

  7. The city's off-campus training institutions and high-level auxiliary institutions suspend all offline activities.

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