Nearly 40% of students in China resume classes as epidemic eases

Students wearing face masks amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive at a middle school in Beijing on Tuesday (May 12). Students in a number of cities including Shanghai and Beijing began returning to classes in late April, starting with high schoolers. - AFP

BEIJING: Nearly 40% of students have returned to schools, where classes are resuming in an orderly manner, as the (Covid-19) coronavirus epidemic eases in China, the Ministry of Education said Tuesday (May 11).

More than 100 million students have resumed classes in Chinese schools as of Monday, accounting for 39% of all the students nationwide, from kindergartens to universities, said Wang Dengfeng, an official with the ministry, at a press conference.