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Photos: Students back to school in China, as restrictions ease
China's two most important cities, Beijing and Shanghai, allowed students back onto campuses on Monday after more than three months at home, as coronavirus restrictions eased and governments around the world began charting a path out of the pandemic's lockdown. Students returning to campus to prepare for the all important national university entrance exam found that life is still far from normal, with smaller classes, temperature checks, strict social distancing, and no physical education sessions.
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Students wearing face masks arrive at the Huayu Middle School in Shanghai on April 27. Tens of thousands of students returned Chinese school campuses on Monday after months of closures intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as China’s major cities stepped closer to normality. (Hector Retamal / AFP)
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An official in a hazmat suit waits inside a high school entrance as a student arrives in Beijing. China has largely curbed the spread of the deadly disease, but is still on high alert with growing fears of imported cases and a second wave of domestic infections in the northeast. (Greg Baker / AFP)
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Medical workers from a hospital collect swabs from high school teachers for nucleic acid tests at a school in Yichang. Life on campus is still far from normal, with smaller classes, temperature checks, strict social distancing, and no physical education sessions. (China Daily via REUTERS )
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Students use hand sanitizer while on their way into school in Shanghai. Senior students were allowed back to prepare for the all-important “Gaokao” university entrance exam. (Cnsphoto via REUTERS)
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Police and officials emerge from a high school as a man disinfects the entrance after students arrived for their first day of classes in Beijing. Students were checked for unusually high temperature at the start of the school day and kept in isolation areas if running high. Students were checked at least five times to before returning to the classroom. (Greg Baker / AFP)
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Students wearing face masks arrive at the Huayu Middle School in Shanghai. Students in the capital will have their temperatures measured at school gates and must show a “green” health code on a special app that calculates a person’s infection risk, according to China’s Ministry of Education. (Hector Retamal / AFP)
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Students in a classroom with partitions on their desks in Chongqing. Inside schools, students were split into classes of about 20 -- smaller than before the epidemic -- while physical education classes stood cancelled. Lunch must be eaten in small groups inside classrooms rather than in the cafeteria, students told AFP. (Cnsphoto via REUTERS)
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A pair of face masks hang on a coat rack with other items of clothing as a student in the foreground plays badminton at a park in Beijing. (Wang Zhao / AFP)
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