HO CHIH MINH CITY, Feb 15 (Vietnam News/ANN): The People's Committee of HCM City has directed all educational establishments in the city to remain closed and resume online study until Feb 28.
Under the city's original plan, students would have returned to schools and universities on Feb 17. But, under the new directive, they will resume online study after the Tet holiday until February 28 to maintain the academic year schedule.
Schools will also continue to implement measures to prevent and control the spread of Covid-19, and students and teachers will have to submit health declarations when they return to school.
At the beginning of this month following the Covid-19 outbreak, the city authority directed schools to switch to online study for the week before Tet.
The HCM City Centre for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that most Covid-19 patients connected to the Tan Son Nhat International Airport cluster have had no symptoms or mild symptoms.
Many of those cases connected to the airport cluster have tested negative for Covid-19 after a short period of isolation and hospital treatment, the centre said.
Meanwhile, Vietnam recorded 33 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday (Feb 15), which were all locally transmitted infections, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new infections brought the total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the South-East Asian country to 2,228 with 35 deaths, said the ministry.
Among the new cases, 31 were detected in the northern Hai Duong province, the country's largest Covid-19 hotspot at the moment, and two in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi.
As many as 1,534 patients have been given the all-clear, the ministry said, adding that nearly 152,700 people are being quarantined and monitored.
Across localities, antiseptic work, contact tracing and quarantining activities have been promptly carried out. Hanoi has requested the suspension of all festivals until the 15th day of the first lunar month, which falls on Feb. 26, in order to better control the situation.
The latest wave of Covid-19 infections hit Vietnam on Jan. 28, with 637 community cases so far confirmed in 13 cities and provinces, according to the health ministry. - Vietnam News/ANN
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