Shanghai yesterday said it would reopen all schools including kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools on Sept. 1 after months of COVID-19 closures.
All teachers and students are to be required to take nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 every day before leaving campus, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission said in a statement.
It also called for teachers and students to carry out a 14-day “self health management” within the city ahead of the school reopening, it said.
Shanghai shut all schools in March before the city’s two-month lockdown to combat its worst COVID-19 outbreak through April and May.
It allowed some students of high