Due to the high number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 every day and the study of a mutant novel coronavirus that can “spread quickly at all ages”, the British government announced on the 1st local time that all primary schools in London will no longer open on the 4th as planned, and schools will be closed and converted to distance learning.
Previously, the British government The government has asked London secondary schools to postpone their return to school after the New Year holiday.
The largest teachers’ union in the UK issued an appeal on the 2nd local time to order the government to “postpon the reopening of all primary and secondary schools throughout England for at least two weeks after the New Year holiday”.
Some parents also said they were worried that rushing to start school could lead to children contracting the mutant novel coronavirus.
