MEXT E-mail Newsletter Focusing on Schools for Foreign Students 23rd issue（June 18th, 2021）

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MEXT E-mail Newsletter Focusing on Schools for Foreign Students
23rd issue：June 18th, 2021
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(1)Cooperation in identifying close contact with infected person in areas of infection spread
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has issued the administrative notice dated June 4, 2021, "Identification of close contact with an infected person in active epidemiological investigations in areas where infection is spreading" (see an appendix 2 in the attached file, only in Japanese).
When an infected person occurs in a school in an area of the Declaration of a State of Emergency or the Priority Preventive Measures, please cooperate as much as possible with the public health center by consulting with them, in identifying close contact with an infected person based on certain standards set by the public health center and testing by a laboratory.

(2)Others
To register or de-register to this newsletter, please send an email to the following e-mail address at MEXT. In the case of register, please describe your e-mail address and affiliation in your e-mail:
E-mail address: gaikokuzingakkou@mext.go.jp
It would be appreciated if you register the e-mail address of representatives of the schools for foreign students.

To check the previous newsletters, please follow the steps by clicking the specified link below;
https://www.mext.go.jp/magazine/backnumber/symel_00001.htm

The website focusing on the schools for foreign students was launched in Plain Japanese on the MEXT's official website;
https://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/kokusai/gaikoku/

Useful information for everyone at the schools for foreign students focusing on anti-COVID-19 measures will be provided in several languages, for the time being, so please regularly check our updates.

Thank you for reading this e-mail newsletter.


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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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