Indonesian schools reopen face-to-face class despite Omicron scare


Image from Jakarta Post/ANN

JAKARTA, Jan 30 (Xinhua): Ilmia Rahayu's days have been filled with worries since the Indonesian government decided to restart face-to-face learning in schools in the first week of January, amid a surge in Covid-19 cases triggered by the Omicron variant.

She does not want her only child, Zaki Alhaq, a fifth grader at a private elementary school in Jakarta, to leave their house to take an offline learning class even though the school guarantees that health protocol there is strictly enforced.

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