"If there are less than 1,000 confirmed cases per day, all students will go to school" like going to school every day

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government reformed the distance, it also introduced a new principle of going to school. Starting from the second semester, if the number of confirmed cases nationwide does not reach 1,000, students will be able to go to school every day.

This news will be followed by reporter Hoon-Kyung Jang.

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Starting from the second semester, the principle of full school attendance is the first and second of the four new social distancing steps.

It means that students can go to school every day as long as the average daily number of confirmed cases in the country does not exceed 1,000.

[Yoo Eun-hye / Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education: We will implement full school attendance from the academic calendar for the second semester. We will open the school gates in 17 months.] We

plan to vaccinate as many school members as possible during the vacation period for normal school attendance in the second semester.

By August, about 1.1 million elementary, middle and high school staff and 800,000 students taking third-grade high schools will be vaccinated, and university officials in charge of entrance exams and university arts and sports academy instructors will be vaccinated first by August.

In addition, for three weeks before and after school starts, schools and academies operate an intensive quarantine period, and up to 60,000 quarantine personnel are deployed.

However, no specific measures were taken to resolve overcrowding in all colleges with more than 1,000 students and overcrowded classes with more than 30 students, which are highly likely to be infected.

[Oh Seok-hwan/Director of Education Policy and Welfare Bureau, Ministry of Education: We plan to make a comprehensive announcement in July. Conversion of special classrooms to regular classrooms and placement of modular teachers (mobile school buildings) are planned to be implemented first.] In response

to the risk of spread during mealtimes where people have no choice but to take off their masks, the government installed partitions, expanded staggered distribution, and increased the number of meal helpers. said he plans to do it.