A child looks into a classroom at an elementary school in Beijing on Sunday, the day that some schools around the country reopened for the spring semester. Photo: VCG

Students walk to an elementary school Monday in Jilin, Northeast China’s Jilin province. Photo: VCG

An elementary school student walks to school in Jilin. Photo: VCG

A police officer helps a student cross a street in Zaozhuang, East China’s Shandong province. Photo: VCG

A student has her temperature checked before entering a middle school in Shijiazhuang, the capital of North China’s Hebei province that was site of a recent Covid-19 flare-up. Photo: VCG

Students line up in front of an elementary school in Beijing. All middle and elementary schools in the Chinese capital opened Monday as the new semester began. Photo: VCG