345 Students Confirmed COVID-19 Positive in 9 Days After School Opens... 0.8% of Schools Remote or Closed

Average of 35.2 Students Confirmed Daily from 2nd to 10th
99.2% of Elementary, Middle, and High Schools Conducting In-Person Classes

On the morning of the 2nd, students at Poi Elementary School in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, disinfected their hands as they arrived on the first day of school. Photo by Joint Press Corps

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] Since the start of the school year in March, 345 kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school students have tested positive for COVID-19 over a span of 9 days.

On the 11th, the Ministry of Education announced that from the 2nd to the 10th, the cumulative number of confirmed student cases was 345, and 27 among faculty and staff. The daily average was 35.2 students and 2.7 faculty members testing positive.

The daily number of confirmed student cases decreased from 38 on the 2nd to 28 on the 4th, then increased to 45 on the 7th. On the 10th, it was 42.

As of 10 a.m. on that day, among 20,512 schools conducting in-person classes, 20,346 schools (99.2%) held in-person classes, 123 schools (0.6%) conducted remote classes for all grades, and 43 schools (0.2%) implemented discretionary holidays.

The regions with the highest number of schools unable to conduct in-person classes were Gyeonggi-do with 42 schools, Seoul with 29, Gangwon with 14, and Ulsan and Gyeongbuk with 10 each.

Among all students, 73.9% attended in-person classes as of 4 p.m. on the 10th. The number of students unable to attend due to COVID-19 was 22,987, of whom 4,650 (20.22%) were either confirmed cases or quarantined due to contact with confirmed cases.

Meanwhile, from the 4th to the 10th, 75 university students and 11 university faculty and staff members tested positive for COVID-19.

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