Around 900,000 students have been out of school since February 3; classes may resume in stages
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Tuesday that there is little to no possibility that the city's schools will fully reopen on April 20.
Speaking at her weekly media briefing, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor added that while classes could only resume in stages, the government had been trying to boost the supply of children’s masks by asking the Correctional Services Department for help.
Lam’s attempt to manage parents’ expectations came alongside her announcement that all travellers from foreign countries arriving in Hong Kong from Thursday would undergo mandatory quarantine. The move was seen as an attempt to combat a rise in imported infections, which account for about half of the city’s confirmed cases.