More than 30,000 students withdrew from schools in Hong Kong in the last academic year.
HONG KONG: In Hong Kong, stringent COVID-19 curbs have long made life for school students extremely hard. Now, a new rule requiring higher vaccination levels could upend what progress has been made towards resuming full-day in-person classes.
Many are part of an exodus kickstarted by Beijing's efforts to exert greater control over the city and which has been further fuelled by COVID-19 curbs. The most immediate impact will be on international schools, which recently resumed full-day in-person classes, having gained levels of 90 per cent for students with two COVID-19 shots. Local schools and some international primary schools are still limited to half-day in-person and half-day online classes due to lower vaccination rates.'SENSE OF DOOM'
He quit his job in July, fed up with restrictions imposed by the city's adoption of China's zero-COVID strategy that seeks to stamp out all outbreaks.
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