SYDNEY: Children in some Australian states began returning to school on Monday (May 11) after an extended break due to COVID-19, as the country's ...
SYDNEY: Children in some Australian states began returning to school on Monday after an extended break due to COVID-19, as the country's rate of new infections continued to slow.
"I know this is a huge relief for families," NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney. Final year students, whose exams were interrupted by the virus response, would attend at least three days per week in class, Berejiklian said, with the plan to return to full-time class attendance for all students by the end of May.NSW has suffered about 45 per cent of the country's 6,941 confirmed cases and 97 deaths. But it has said it will begin easing some restrictions on personal movement later this week as the rate of new infections remains low.
Australia's second most populous state, Victoria, has asked parents to keep their children home if possible until the middle of the year and plans to give an update on its social distancing measures on Monday.
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