High school students light up their mobile phones as they sing ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ during a pro-democracy rally at the Salisbury Garden in Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong on December 13, 2019.
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File photo: Students of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) participate in a march towards HKUST president Wei Shyy’s lodge in Hong Kong on November 8, 2019, following the death earlier in the day of student Alex Chow, 22, who was taken unconscious to hospital early on November 4 following late-night clashes between police and protesters. Philip FONG / AFP
Hong Kong will close all schools after the territory reported a spike in locally transmitted coronavirus infections, the city’s education minister said Friday.
The government has ordered all schools to close from Monday, bringing forward the start of the summer holidays, Kevin Yeung said, after the city recorded 34 locally transmitted cases on Thursday.
