Schools Across China to Reopen, Drawing Concern About Virus Spread

Students sit in a classroom as grade three students in middle school and high school return after the term opening was delayed due to the CCP virus outbreak in Huaian, Jiangsu province, China on March 30, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images

After China’s capital Beijing announced plans to reopen classes for some school grades, cities and provinces across the country—except Hubei, the epicenter of the CCP virus outbreak—followed with their own schedules for restarting the school semester.

Local governments in all of China’s provinces and directly-administered cities, except Hubei, announced plans by April 12, despite some areas, such as Heilongjiang province in the north, reporting a surge in new imported cases of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.