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Many universities in China have decided
to stagger the start of the new semester in an effort to minimize the
risk of coronavirus transmission. The
University of International Business and Economics in Beijing announced
Thursday that it will delay in-person classes for the new semester
after the winter break. According to
the announcement, online classes will start on March 1 and continue for
about two weeks. Students will stagger their return to campus between
March 16 and March 21 and offline classes will resume on March 22. Renmin University of China and Peking University have also postponed the new semester by one to two weeks. Classes
will start as planned at Tsinghua University, which is expected to
welcome some 18,000 return students over three days from Friday. The
university has arranged shuttle buses to pick up the students and two
mass testings for COVID-19 will be conducted on Feb. 27 and March 6. Similar
arrangements have also been made by universities in other parts of the
country, with a variety of COVID-19 prevention and control measures. Wuhan
University in central China's Hubei Province and Anhui Normal
University in east China's Anhui Province have staggered the opening
dates of the new semester for undergraduate and graduate students in
different grades. Students at Wuhan
University are required to register with the university before returning
to campus. Students from low-risk areas must present a green health
code to apply for permission to get back to school while those from
middle-or-high risk areas should stay put until the warning level for
COVID-19 drops to low-risk. These students should also have a negative
nucleic acid test result within seven days when applying to go back. The
Chinese mainland reported no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on
Wednesday, the National Health Commission said Thursday. No
new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases have been reported for three
consecutive days since Monday, according to the commission.
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