BEIJING, April 27 — Children in China's two most important cities went back to school today after more than three months at home, as coronavirus restrictions eased and governments around the world began charting a path out of the pandemic lockdown. Europe's four worst-affected countries all...
Students wearing face masks arrive at the Huayu Middle School in Shanghai, China April 27, 2020. — AFP pic
Italy and New York laid out partial reopening plans, with France and Spain to follow suit this week, while tens of thousands of students returned to school in Shanghai and Beijing after months of closures. Students must have their temperatures checked at school gates and show “green” health codes on an app that calculates a person's infection risk, according to China's Ministry of Education.
Those encouraging figures blew relief through a continent frustrated by restrictions designed to slow the spread of the disease. Saudi Arabia said it would partially lift its curfew but would maintain a round-the-clock lockdown in the Muslim holy city of Mecca.
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