Starting Nov. 1, Hong Kong’s secondary schools will need to have 90 percent of their students with three Covid-19 jabs in order for them to run classes on campuses for the whole day.
According to an RTHK report, the Education Bureau sent a notice regarding the matter to the institutions today, shortly before most schools are set to reopen after the summer break on Thursday.
Currently, schools are allowed to resume full-day classes on campuses if 90 percent of students have two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. They can also do so for individual grades if 90 percent of the students in those levels have been jabbed twice.
But that requirement will be upgraded to three shots starting on Nov. 1 for the whole school or individual grades.
Primary schools can only hold half-day classes, regardless of how many jabs the students have received, while kindergarten pupils can only attend classes in the morning or the afternoon but not both.
The bureau also urged schools to encourage staff and students to test themselves for the virus today and on Wednesday, before Thursday’s return to campus.
