How COVID-19 changes classrooms

Thermal cameras, transparent dividers in cafeterias, masks and disinfectants in classrooms: These are some of the changes Korean students are to face in the era of COVID-19 as they return to schools from May 13.
 
With a marked slowdown in new infections and the easing of social distancing nationwide, students will go back to school in phases after 72 days, starting with high school seniors. The spring semester already began in April, though entirely with online classes.
 
“Schools cannot go back to the times before the COVID-19 outbreak and all of us should prepare for a new way of running schools,” said Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae on Monday, announcing the schools’ phased reopenings from May 13 through June 1...

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