Nursery schools ask Hong Kong government to maintain in-person classes despite increase in citywide coronavirus cases
- Nursery school operators say government should focus on the need for parents to have children vaccinated rather than suspend classes
- Calls come after warning that authorities may suspend whole-day classes in more senior schools if daily coronavirus infections pass 10,000
Kindergarten operators in Hong Kong have appealed to the government not to suspend face-to-face classes despite the surge in Covid-19 infections and instead improve communication with parents to hammer home the need for children to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Rosa Chow Wai-chun, president of the Early Childhood Educators Association, made the call after Christine Choi Yuk-lin, the education secretary, said on Sunday that the government might suspend whole-day in-person classes if the daily coronavirus caseload passed 10,000.
Chow said she hoped the government would not need to suspend in-person classes as was done earlier in the pandemic.
“These two to three years in the pandemic have been uncertain. Last year, classes kept pausing and resuming, our staff has already prepared for such changes … but the best is that classes are not affected,” she said.
Chow was speaking after the city recorded 8,488 new cases on Monday and four more deaths were reported.
