South Korea Shuts Schools Again After Students Test Positive For Coronavirus

Schools in Incheon, a city near capital Seoul were shut after 2 students confimed coronavirus positive. The schools has isolated 17 students and a total of 18 students who had direct contact with the infected student will take the coronavirus test

Students observe social distancing as a preventative measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus as they eat lunch at a high school in Seoul on May 20, 2020. ( Image: YONHAP / AFP)

  New Delhi: Schools in South Korea re-opened after 3 months on Wednesday but education in times of coronavirus is not easy. Within hours of reopening, dozens of schools in Incheon, a city near the capital Seoul, were forced to shut again after two students tested positive for coronavirus as reported by CNN. According to the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education, a Daegu Agricultural Meister High School senior residing in its dormitory has been confirmed to be infected with Covid-19, prompting authorities to close the school and force all other students to return home or be quarantined, Yonhap News Agency (Yonhap) reported. At the Daegu school, the infected student entered the dorm on Tuesday afternoon before taking a coronavirus test the following day. The school was notified of the student's positive result before the beginning of Wednesday's first class. The school isolated 17 students residing in the dorm and the remaining 94 seniors were sent home. A total of 18 students who had direct contact with the infected student will take the coronavirus test, said the Yonhap News Agency report. School facilities will be closed for two days for disinfection, while classes will be shifted back online. The other primary and secondary schools will reopen by June 8. South Korea reported 25 more cases of the COVID-19 compared to 24 hours ago as of midnight on Sunday, raising the total number of infections to 11,190. The daily caseload stayed above 20 for the third straight day. Of the new cases, eight were imported from overseas, lifting the combined figure to 1,212, Xinhua reported. No more death was confirmed, leaving the death toll at 266. The total fatality rate stood at 2.38 percent. A total of 19 more patients were discharged from quarantine after making full recovery, pulling up the combined number to 10,213. The total recovery rate was 91.3 percent. Since January 3, the country has tested more than 820,000 people, among whom 788,766 tested negative for the virus, and 20,333 are being checked. (With inputs from IANS)