302 Students Confirmed Positive in the Past Week... 2 More Than Last Week

76 Schools Fail to Open... 22 in Gyeonggi, 15 in Seoul

On the 31st, when the number of new COVID-19 cases recorded 430, maintaining the 400s for the second consecutive day, citizens lined up at the temporary screening clinic in Seoul Station Plaza to get tested. As of midnight that day, new cases included 411 domestic infections and 19 imported cases, bringing the total cumulative cases to 140,340 (including 9,053 imported cases). Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] In the past week, 302 students tested positive for COVID-19, an increase of 2 from the previous week.

According to the Ministry of Education on the 10th, from the 3rd to the 9th of this month, a total of 302 students and 52 staff members from kindergartens, elementary, middle, and high schools nationwide tested positive for COVID-19. On average, 43.1 students and 21.0 staff members were confirmed positive per day.

The number of student cases decreased at the end of May but has increased for two consecutive weeks since June. The cumulative number of student COVID-19 cases this semester has reached 4,553.

As of 10 a.m. on this day, 76 schools, accounting for 0.4% of all kindergartens, elementary, middle, and high schools, were unable to hold in-person classes this week. This is one more school than on the 3rd.

The schools unable to hold in-person classes were mostly in Gyeonggi (22 schools) and Seoul (15 schools). Other regions reported single-digit numbers.

The number of students attending in-person classes as of 4 p.m. the previous day was 4,557,000, representing 76.8% of all students. By school level, 78.7% of elementary, 67.5% of middle, and 74.6% of high school students attended in-person classes.

In the past week, 147 new university students and 13 university staff members tested positive. The cumulative number of confirmed cases among university students and staff are 2,080 and 201, respectively.

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