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Around 6 million students returned to classes in the Saujdi this week for the first time since the start of the pandemic after data suggested infections were stabilising and fatalities falling, Reuters reports.
Children older than 12 have to show they have been vaccinated before they can return.
“School breaks and activities involving physical proximity have been cancelled,” a manager at a school told Reuters.
New coronavirus infections in Saudi Arabia have stabilised at a few hundred daily over the last months from a peak of more than 4,000 new cases in June 2020. The average daily number of deaths fell below 10 during August.
