Dividers between the counters, mandatory masks and strict controls at the entrance. This is what back to school is like in China

A little throughout China, schools are gradually reopening. The rules to be respected and the precautions to avoid a second wave are many

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China is approaching the return to school of children and young people with extreme caution. Here are the rules that everyone must respect to avoid the spread of new infections.

The provinces of northwestern China, the least affected by the coronavirus emergency, have reopened their schools after no new contagion has been registered for 30 days. They did it anyway with very specific rules to avoid finding oneself again in an emergency phase.

What are the ways of returning to school? The measures taken are many: first of all the desks that previously occupied two neighboring companions have now become single, each is separated by a plexiglass plate, wearing a mask is mandatory e the classrooms are disinfected 3 to 6 times a day.

There are also strict entry controls, students line up to make themselves measure the temperature with an infrared thermometer or thermal imaging camera and must always respect social distances, as well as wash their hands regularly with the disinfectants available in the special dispensers.

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Depending on the individual schools, the protocols may vary a bit, for example there is a school in Guang'an, a city in Sichuan province, which has decided to make students wear a plastic visor like that of doctors.

Yesterday we also told you about the Hangzhou school that makes its students wear original and wide hats that guarantee that the distance between the little ones is always 1 meter.

In China, they go back to school and create colored hats one meter wide to respect the social distancing in the classroom

Since then there is concern about the contact between children and young people in common areas such as the canteen, some centers have placed individual partitions to separate diners. Other schools have instead preferred to avoid partitions by choosing to leave open spaces, delimited by the lack of chairs, in order to keep the right distances.

It was then chosen, a bit like what is happening in European countries that have planned a reopening of schools between April and May, a progressive return to the classrooms. Cities like Beijing or Shanghai, with populations of over 20 million, will reopen some institutions next Monday in a four-day pilot project, with the rest of the centers following on May 6. That day will also mark the return to classrooms in Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, where firefighters are in charge of thoroughly disinfecting institutions.

In short, it is clear throughout the country that the intention is not to run the risk of a second wave that could ruin the results obtained so far.

Sources of reference: BBC / Diario Sur / Record China

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