Chinanews client, Beijing, November 16th (Ren Jing) Recently, affected by the spread of the epidemic, many colleges and universities announced the winter vacation time earlier.
Many colleges and universities have holidays 5-14 days earlier, and some colleges and universities start their holidays in late December.
Many colleges and universities have cleared the winter vacation in advance
Recently, many colleges and universities in Henan, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Fujian and other provinces issued notices to adjust the winter vacation time according to the epidemic prevention and control situation and the wishes and needs of teachers and students.
Take Henan as an example. At present, more than 20 colleges and universities including Henan University, Henan Agricultural University, Zhoukou Normal University and other universities have clearly announced their holidays in advance. The start of winter vacation in most schools is 5 to 14 days earlier than the previous arrangement. Zhengzhou Huanghe Vocational College of Nursing It is to directly advance the holiday time to December 20.
Adjustment of winter vacation time in some universities in Henan.
The screenshot is taken from the WeChat public account of the Henan Provincial Department of Education
In addition, some colleges and universities in Shandong, Shanxi, Hubei, Fujian and other provinces have also advanced their holidays by about a week.
Regarding the issue of whether colleges and universities should advance their winter vacation, at the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism press conference on the 13th, Wang Dengfeng, director of the Prevention and Control Office of the Ministry of Education and director of the Department of Sports, Health and Art Education, said that whether colleges and universities will have winter vacation in advance is the first priority. Looking at the development of the epidemic situation, secondly, it must be based on the requirements of the territories for epidemic prevention and control measures in all aspects.
Wang Dengfeng emphasized that according to the actual situation of each school in each region, all colleges and universities should be encouraged to make independent decisions in a unified manner under the premise of territorial management, in accordance with territorial requirements, combined with campus prevention and control requirements, course progress, and learning arrangements. .
Data map: Students are doing nucleic acid testing.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Shuainan
The epidemic spreads to colleges and universities, causing widespread concern
One of the important reasons why the university has put the winter vacation ahead of schedule has attracted public attention. One of the important reasons is that in this round of the epidemic, some universities have been affected by the epidemic.
Since the outbreak of new crown pneumonia in Zhuanghe City, Dalian, Liaoning Province on November 4, more than 60 students have been diagnosed in Zhuanghe University City.
The university city has two campuses, east and west, with a total of 14,662 students, and a total of 984 faculty and staff on the two campuses.
Starting on the 4th, the University City and the main urban area of Zhuanghe City have simultaneously initiated closure measures. Teaching activities in the University City have been suspended, and students are closed in the dormitory for management.
After a positive case of nucleic acid testing appeared on November 7, the eastern and western campuses of the University City simultaneously implemented comprehensive lock-ups.
At present, all confirmed cases have been transferred to Dalian Public Health Clinical Center for isolation and treatment.
According to media reports, the first confirmed case in Dalian this round of the epidemic came from a designated cold storage at the first station in Zhuanghe City.
Subsequently, an employee of the food company was diagnosed with the diagnosis, followed by a college student diagnosed in the cafeteria.
On the 14th, Zhao Lian, deputy director of the Dalian Municipal Health Commission, introduced that the epidemic has a high viral load, rapid transmission, short intergenerational time, hidden illness, and difficult to detect. There were more asymptomatic infections in the early stage. The present unit The characteristics of gathering, family gathering and school gathering.
This is not the first time a confirmed case has appeared in a university.
In June of this year, Xinhua College in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province was diagnosed with college students, and then the school implemented closed management.
Data map: Medical staff vaccinated students with the new crown vaccine.
Photo by Zhang Bin
Campus epidemic prevention and control cannot be taken lightly
Recently, local clusters of epidemics have occurred from time to time, and the influence of winter factors has been superimposed, which poses no small challenges to the school's epidemic prevention and control work.
On November 5th, the Ministry of Education held a video conference on the prevention and control of the epidemic in the national education system and the work of school hygiene and health education in the new era.
At the meeting, it was emphasized that for school epidemic prevention and control, three "strict preventions" should be made. One is to prevent the epidemic from entering campuses; the other is to prevent clustered epidemics in schools; and the third is to prevent social associations in the event of a campus epidemic risk. .
In addition, at a press conference on the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council on November 13, Wang Dengfeng pointed out that from the recent outbreaks of epidemics on campuses, almost all of them were caused by students who were affected in contact with their co-residents. Brought to campus.
He mentioned that especially after the winter, if family members or people living together have a cold or fever, or have been in or out of an area involved in the epidemic, the education administrative departments at all levels and schools must keep abreast of these conditions and follow the actual situation. The local epidemic prevention and control requires corresponding measures for students and their co-residents.
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