South Korean students are returning to schools as their country prepares for a new normal amid the pandemic. Students in some schools near Seoul were quickly asked to leave and return home after their classmates were found to have contracted the virus.
Seoul education superintendent Cho Hee-yeon, right, checks a senior student's body temperature at the Kyungbock High School in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. South Korean high schools reopened on Wednesday after weeks of postponement due to safety concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.
In a reminder that returning to normalcy won’t be easy, students in some schools near Seoul were quickly asked to leave and return home after two students were found to have contracted the virus. South Korean health authorities on Wednesday reported 32 new cases over a 24-hour period, the first time the daily jump has been above 30 in more than a week.
At Seoul’s Kyungbock High School, Cho Hee-yeon, the education superintendent in the capital, used a digital ear thermometer to check students’ temperatures at the main gate while another official placed liquid sanitizer on the hands of those students. Signs that read “No outsiders are allowed to enter the school premises” were set up.
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