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Shanghai to reopen all schools Sept. 1 with daily COVID-19 testing

/ 11:25 AM August 14, 2022

Shanghai to reopen all schools Sept. 1 with daily COVID-19 testing

A teacher wearing a face mask teaches inside a classroom during a government-organized media tour at a high school as more students returned to campus following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shanghai, China May 7, 2020. REUTERS FILE PHOTO

SHANGHAI — China’s financial hub Shanghai said on Sunday it will reopen all primary, middle and high schools, kindergartens and nurseries on Sept. 1 after months of COVID-19 closures.

Shanghai will require all teachers and students to take nucleic acid tests for the coronavirus every day before leaving campus, according to a statement published by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.

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Shanghai shut all schools in mid-March before the city’s two-month lockdown to combat its worst COVID outbreak in April and May.

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