Hong Kong closing schools again

Schoolchildren wearing masks walk amid other pedestrians in Hong Kong on Friday. The territory is closing its schools again from Monday in hopes of keeping new virus cases from rising. (Bloomberg Photo)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong will close all schools again after a spike in locally transmitted coronavirus infections, the city’s education minister said on Friday.

Schools will close from Monday, bringing forward the start of the summer holidays, Kevin Yeung said, after the city recorded an “exponential growth” of locally transmitted cases in the past few days.

The city recorded 38 new confirmed cases on Friday, 32 of which were locally transmitted.

The spike marks a setback for Hong Kong, where daily life was returning to normal with restaurants and bars resuming normal operations and cultural attractions reopening.

Despite being right next to mainland China where the outbreak emerged in late 2019, the territory had largely managed to subdue local transmissions in recent months.

But new infection clusters started to emerge since Tuesday, including at an elderly care home that reported at least 32 cases and a housing estate that reported 11 cases.

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