{"id":106699,"date":"2021-06-14T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=419409"},"modified":"2021-06-14T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:05:00","slug":"guangzhou-pospones-high-school-entrance-exam-over-covid-19-china-news-sina-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2021\/06\/14\/guangzhou-pospones-high-school-entrance-exam-over-covid-19-china-news-sina-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Guangzhou pospones high school entrance exam over COVID-19  China News  SINA English"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"MediaIntel.Asia\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>GUANGZHOU, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province, announced Monday that the local senior high school entrance examination scheduled for June 20-22 would be postponed to July over COVID-19.<br \/>\nThe decision was made to protect the health of teachers and students per epidemic prevention and control measures as the exam in the current situation could increase cross-infection risks, the municipal education department said.<br \/>\nThe exam time would be set soon depending on the epidemic situation and be made public in advance, said Gu Zhongpeng, deputy director of the department.<br \/>\nMore than 90,000 junior high school students are scheduled to take part in the exam, Gu said.<br \/>\nAuthorities in Guangzhou on Monday also lifted lockdown in 11 regions in five districts after the epidemic situation eased.<br \/>\nGuangdong Province reported four locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Sunday, all in the capital Guangzhou, the provincial health commission said.<br \/>\nTwo medics in Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital tested positive for COVID-19 on June 11 and are currently receiving treatment at the hospital, the provincial health commission said Monday. The commission added that both of them are in stable condition.<br \/>\nThe province also reported three imported confirmed cases and 14 imported asymptomatic carriers on Sunday.<br \/>\nCurrently, 194 COVID-19 patients are being treated in hospitals, said the local commission. Enditem<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUANGZHOU, June 14 (Xinhua) &#8212; Authorities in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province, announced Monday that the local senior high school entrance examination scheduled for June 20-22 would be postponed to July over COVID-19.<br \/>\nThe de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,325,138,408,288,194,899,445],"tags":[10424,10324],"class_list":["post-106699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-education","category-guangdong","category-guangzhou","category-medicine","category-news-chinese-law","category-sina","category-xinhua","tag-china-general-news","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106700,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106699\/revisions\/106700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}