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China’s largest city has ordered its schools to return to online classes amid a spike in COVID-19 cases nearly three years after the pandemic began.
Shanghai’s education bureau announced Saturday that in-person classes would be held online beginning next week after 2,286 symptomatic coronavirus cases were confirmed on China’s mainland on Friday.
Childcare centers and nurseries will also shut down on Monday, the agency said.
The spike in cases comes after China earlier this month began lifting its COVID-19 restrictions, which were some of the strictest in the world. The move to abandon the “Zero-Covid” policy followed widespread public protests sparked by a deadly apartment fire in Urumqi.
