About 23 million Vietnamese students have started a new school year, most of them in virtual classrooms, amid a Covid-19 lockdown to contain a virus surge in the country, reports AP.
In Ho Chi Minh city, the epicentre of Vietnam's worst virus outbreak, teachers and students observed a minute of silence to pay tribute to those who died of Covid-19 and honor frontliners before opening classes on Monday.
Since April, when the latest wave of the virus spread in the country, Vietnam closed down schools and education institutes in pandemic areas and move learning activities to online platforms.
