Shanghai to reopen some schools from June after three-month COVID-19 lockdown

MADRID, 26 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Shanghai authorities have reported that some schools will reopen from June 6 to June 13, depending on the grade, as COVID-19 infections ease after a three-month lockdown in the Chinese city.

"Third-grade high school students will return to school from June 13, (and) students in other grades from primary and secondary schools will continue to study online at home until the end of the semester," the school said in a statement. Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.

Shanghai health authorities have reported this Thursday the death of one person from coronavirus and 290 asymptomatic infections --locally transmitted--, out of a total of 356 positives in mainland China, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

The local authorities already announced last Saturday the return to the system of restrictions by neighborhoods, in such a way that the strictest confinements are again limited to those areas with a greater number of cases of COVID-19.

Areas without confirmed cases in the last 14 days will be considered low risk, while the authorities will maintain the greatest surveillance measures in those districts with more than ten positives or two local infections.

Thus, life is expected to return practically to normal in the second half of June. This Sunday, four metro lines have been reopened, in an attempt to gradually recover activity in public transport.

The Government of China has now transferred the focus of concern over the coronavirus pandemic to Beijing, where the central authorities have demanded more measures from the local authorities to stop once and for all an outbreak of cases that remains practically constant, with dozens of new positives every day.