WUHAN, May 7 (Xinhua) -- About 57,800 students in their final year from 121 high and vocational schools returned to campus on Wednesday in Wuhan, the capital of central China's Hubei Province and a city previously hard hit by the COVID-19 outbreak. These schools have carried out cleaning and preventive disinfection before opening. Health tests are required for all faculty and staff of Grade Three classes in these schools and for students prior to their return.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Senior students study in a classroom with transparent boards placed on each desk to separate each other as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19 at Wuhan No. 23 Middle School in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Senior students study in a classroom with transparent boards placed on each desk to separate each other as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19 at Wuhan No. 23 Middle School in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Senior students study in a classroom with transparent boards placed on each desk to separate each other as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19 at Wuhan No. 23 Middle School in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Senior students open transparent boards to place them on the desks to separate from each other as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19 in a classroom at Wuhan No. 23 Middle School in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Senior students have a class in a classroom with transparent boards placed on each desk to separate each other as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19 at Wuhan No. 23 Middle School in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Senior students study in a classroom with transparent boards placed on each desk to separate each other as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19 at Wuhan No. 23 Middle School in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"]  Senior students study in a classroom with transparent boards placed on each desk to separate each other as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19 at Wuhan No. 23 Middle School in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)■[/caption]