China News Service, July 1st. According to the "Central News Agency", Malaysia’s Minister of Education Mohamad Raz announced on July 1 that the students in the country will gradually resume classes in July, but students can only After school, extracurricular activities and sports are still prohibited.
Data map: Malaysian public transport in an outbreak.
The report said that Mohamad Raz held a TV press conference at 4 pm and announced that due to the control of the new crown epidemic, students of all grades will gradually resume returning to school. Among them, students in grades 1 to 4 of middle school will resume classes on July 15th; students in grades 5 to 6 of elementary school will begin classes on July 15th, and students of grades 1 to 4 of elementary school will only be allowed to resume classes on July 22.
Mohamad Raz announced on June 10th that middle school students in grades 5 and 6 who need to face graduation exams this year will resume classes on June 24th.
Mohamad Raz said that the average attendance rate of these classes that resumed in advance was as high as 92.4%. In addition, the schools actively abide by the epidemic prevention standards. At present, no news of large-scale epidemic infections has been reported in all schools, so they decided to further open all schools. Class. He also stressed that the school only allows classes, and sports and extracurricular activities are still prohibited.
In addition, because the normal school hours this year are affected by the epidemic, many students are forced to study at home for 3 to 4 months, so the Ministry of Education will reduce the second half of the semester holiday, that is, the school year-end holiday that originally had 5 weeks will be reduced to 2 week.
Malaysia will implement an operational control order from March 18, and all schools will immediately suspend classes. However, as the epidemic gradually stabilized, starting on June 10, the government further relaxed the operational control orders and gradually relaxed economic activities.
As of June 30, a total of 8639 confirmed cases had been diagnosed in Malaysia, and a total of 8354 patients were discharged. The number of deaths remained at 121.