202개 학교•유치원 등교 연기, 후속 등교 지침은?<br /><br />South Korea moves ahead with the second phase of school reopening tomorrow with high school juniors, middle school seniors and first and second graders returning to the classrooms.<br />Kindergartners are set to join as well.<br />But, with a day ahead of the big opener, more than 200 schools have postponed the planned back to school due to COVID-19 infections in their community.<br />Education officials are also issuing more detailed guidelines and taking extra prevention measures.<br />Lee Kyung-eun has the latest.<br />For some schools, back-to-school has been postponed again.<br />Seoul's Gangseo-gu District was the first to announce a delay, pushing back school by another week... after a six-year-old kindergartener tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday morning.<br />Later in the day, more than 2-hundred schools and kindergartens in Seoul, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, and the city of Bucheon followed suit because of cases in their districts.<br />In case this happens again, the Seoul education office has laid out a set of operational guidelines.<br />"If someone's infected at a school, we will test everyone who has come in contact with them. And the school will have to shut down for 48 hours to be disinfected.<br />At Seoul high schools, seniors will go to school everyday, while first and second-year students will alternate one week on, one week off.<br />As for middle schools, they'll use a 3-week rotation system.<br />They will not allow extra night-time studying on school premises and they've been advised to cancel mid-terms, given the shortened semester.<br /><br />Elementary schools are required to open at least one day a week.<br />Kindergartens, meanwhile, will need to have a nurse, and for that, the city of Seoul will dispatch around 100 nurses to more than 7-hundred kindergartens.<br />All this is in line with the education ministry's national advice to schools that they limit capacity to two-thirds... by staggering the times they come... or holding classes online at the same time.<br />On Wednesday, the South Korean government will announce additional guidelines for classrooms on the use of masks and air conditioners.<br />Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News.<br />
