Thermal scanners and spaced out classrooms greet senior students as they return to school in China's Covid19 epicentre Wuhan
Senior students attend class at a high school in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on May 6, 2020.
"School is finally reopening!" posted one user of Weibo, China's Twitter-like short messaging platform. Only the province's oldest students were present – seniors who are due to take the make-or-break university entrance exams.Officials in Wuhan say students and staff must all have had virus tests before going back to school, and campuses have been disinfected and cleaned.
In recent months, infections nationwide have dwindled and there have been no new cases reported in Hubei province for over a month.
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