The country had prepared to welcome students back to classrooms on Wednesday, but dozens of new virus cases linked to nightclubs in Seoul have emerged.
To finally greet students in person, schools and teachers disinfected and rearranged desks and checked their stockpile of face masks and hand sanitizers. They set up an isolated waiting area for suspected patients and installed thermal cameras and partitions. The Education Ministry's guidelines even instructed schools to keep one-third of windows open when the air conditioner is on.
The government quickly reinstated the order enforcing disease prevention restrictions on bars and nightclubs but remained cautious. Vice Health Minister Kim Ganglip said in a news briefing Friday that it's"too early" to discuss an additional delay and said,"Sporadic infections can continue to occur, and we are taking the risk to return to our everyday lives."
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