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MEXT E-mail Newsletter Focusing on Schools for Foreign Students.
4th issue：January 5, 2021
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（１）Thorough countermeasures against novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools MEXT would like to announce that we issued "Thorough countermeasures against novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools", considering the increase of infected students or teachers/ staff members at school and clusters, in line with the rapid increase of newly infected person in Japan.

１．Continuation of school education activities and policy for temporary school closures
・Temporary school closures are countermeasures to be taken in case that the entire socio-economic activities of the area are stopped. It should be avoided to close only schools temporarily in order to ensure a healthy learning environment for children.
・Please refrain from taking temporary closure of the entire school only because one student or teacher/staff member is infected.

２．Thorough countermeasures against COVID-19 in extracurricular activities or at dormitories
・Please take thorough countermeasure not only during the extracurricular activities but also before or after the activities, including the situations that students at the same club have a meal together.
・Especially in high schools, please increase vigilance against COVID-19, including considering temporary limitation of activities which have high risk of infection at the extracurricular activity, taking into account of the local infection situation and contents of the extracurricular activities.

For further details, please check the following URL (only in Japanese for now); https://www.mext.go.jp/content/20210105-mxt_kouhou01-000004520_01.pdf

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文部科学省大臣官房国際課
「外国人学校・インターナショナルスクール メールマガジン」担当
E-mail Newsletter Focusing on Schools for Foreign Students International Affairs Division, Minister's Secretariat, MEXT
Tel：03-5253-4111（Ex. 3222） E-mail：gaikokuzingakkou@mext.go.jp
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