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quarantine guidelines change, the number of days students can go to school has also decreased. Before winter break, about a third of students will be taking remote classes at home.



This news will be delivered by reporter Park Jae-hyun.



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School attendance was virtually halted after about a month of implementation.



[Ham Young-ki/Ministry of Education Curriculum Policy Officer: Contains content to adjust the school density to two-thirds. Even if there is a student who does not attend school, because we provide alternative learning… .] From



the 20th, all middle and high schools in the metropolitan area will allow only 20,000 students to attend school.



Except for the 1st and 2nd graders of elementary school, which maintain full attendance, the remaining grades come to 30,000-quarters of the schools.



In non-metropolitan areas, schools with more than 1,000 students or 28 or more per class are subject to school restrictions.



Students receive distance learning from home one or two days a week.



Kindergartens and special schools are fully accessible.



It was decided that such school density restrictions would be implemented only before winter vacation.



This action is not unrelated to the recent mass infection in schools.



Over the past week, there were an average of 940 confirmed cases per day, including students and staff, in elementary, middle, high schools and kindergartens across the country.



The 'vaccination at school' to increase the vaccination rate of adolescents also started today (16th) after one delay.



At a middle school in Gwangju Metropolitan City, 72 students were vaccinated, and 123 people at 6 schools were vaccinated today.



[Park Bong-wook/Scholar: Currently, the number of confirmed student cases is increasing, and I thought that the last way to prevent it is to vaccinate…

.] At



6 schools in Gyeongsangbuk-do, where today's vaccination was scheduled, it has been postponed to next week due to parental protests, etc.



Schools in the metropolitan area plan to start group vaccinations for students next week, and the Seoul area plans to operate after winter break.



(Video coverage: Kim Hyung-soo KBC, Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)