THERMOMETERS at the ready and halls smelling of disinfectant, high schools in Beijing reopened on Thursday after a month-long shutdown to stop the spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
For many of the thousands of students in the first batch to return after 1.7 million were sent home in April when the number of infections spiked, it was a relief to be out of the house.
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