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you analyze the recent corona spread, the rate of confirmed cases among children under the age of 18 exceeds that of adults. Given this situation, the government has also decided to suspend all schools in the metropolitan area from next week.
Correspondent Park Jae-hyun.
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School attendance was virtually halted after about a month of implementation.
[Ham Young-ki / Curriculum Policy Officer of the Ministry of Education: Even if there is a student who has stopped attending school, we will use 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 first and second grades of elementary school, which maintain full attendance, the remaining grades are 30,000 to school.
Schools with more than 1,000 students in all non-metropolitan areas 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 yesterday (16th) after one delay.
At a middle school in Gwangju Metropolitan City, 72 students were vaccinated, and 123 people were vaccinated at 6 schools a day.
At six schools in Gyeongsangbuk-do, where the vaccination was scheduled yesterday, it was postponed to next week due to parental protests.
Schools in the metropolitan area plan to start group vaccinations for students next week, and the Seoul area plans to operate after winter break.