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The Hanoitimes - Relevant agencies have been asked to exert efforts in ensuring safety for students when they resume going to schools, and enforce strict measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Hanoi students are set to come back to school on March 2 after one-month break and online classes to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a dispatch issued by the municipal People’s Committee on February 27. The date applies for students from kindergarten to high school levels, while colleges and centers for vocational training and continuing education will reopen a week later. Students at Le Quy Don Secondary School in Hanoi wear masks in class and practices mild social distancing. Photo: Van Trong University student schedules would be determined by the schools themselves, though the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control recommended that they should reopen on March 15 to ensure social distancing measures. Relevant agencies have been asked to exert efforts in ensuring safety for students when they resume going to schools, and enforce strict measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. To ensure safety for students, this weekend, schools have disinfected their campuses and prepare materials for the epidemic prevention, in addition to having a clear approach to managing students. Schools have also regularly disinfected areas, especially those being constantly touched, and vehicles used to carry students. As on-site classes resume, parents need to take their children's body temperatures at home, prepare them masks and personal items so they would not have to share them with classmates to avoid infection, the municipal authority said. Previously, Hanoi students started staying home on February 1, about a week earlier than the expected beginning of the Tet break due to a new wave of Covid-19 sweeping nationwide and new cases of locally-transmitted cases were reported in the city. After the one-week …

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Hanoi students are allowed to come back to school from March 2 as the city’s Covid-19 situation has been brought under control following municipal authorities’ decision. Under the decision signed by Chu Xuan Dung, vice chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, students from nursery and high-school levels will return school from March 2. Meanwhile, local colleges and universities are permitted to be reopened from March 8. Hanoi students to return school from next week Earlier, the city issued a decision on the school closure from February 15 to February 28 as a measure for Covid-19 prevention and control. On February 24, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training proposed the school reopening from March 2. Hanoi has seen no new Covid-19 locally-infected case over the past 15 days. …

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Three college seniors at Quy Nhon University in the south-central province of Binh Dinh are proudly celebrating bagging the grand prize at a local start up competition for their cleverly designed smart-lights. Vo Nguyen Duc Tri, Vo Thanh Nhan, and Nguyen Thi Diem Phuc’s voice-controlled invention was inspired by the need for a device to aid physically impaired Vietnamese in turning their lights on and off without the need for Bluetooth or an Internet connection. The trio, all finance and banking majors, spent over a hundred hours recording voice samples of Vietnamese dialects from around the country before inputting them into an algorithm that allows the device to independently process speech for the control of neon lighting strips. One of their invention’s major features is that it is not activated when words resembling the stored commands are recognized in regular conversation. In other words, operating commands must be made in isolation. All of the materials for the smart-light device are readily available in Vietnam which helped the group keep their total costs at just VND20,000 (under US$1) – far cheaper than other products with the same function currently sold in Vietnam, Tri said. Similar devices already sold in Vietnam can turn lights on and off by sensing human body temperature, motion, and hand clapping. There are other products that can recognize voice commands but they rely on coupling with a smartphone through Bluetooth or Internet connection. The student’s next goal is forming a company to mass-produce similar voice-controls for electric fans and sockets The judges at the competition were not shy to give their blessing, saying the device holds great promise for commercial success. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to get the latest news about Vietnam! …

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