Top Two Chinese Universities Encourage Students to Return Home After COVID-19 Lockdown Protests


Source: collegenews.org collegenews.org

Key Topics in this News Article:

News Snapshot:

Two leading universities in China, Peking and Tsinghua, have advised students to return home after the latter expressed their dissatisfaction over the strict measures introduced by these two institutions to prevent the spread of the COVID-19. As part of the measures, students enrolled at these universities have been asked to isolate themselves on campus for weeks, while parcels with food, clothes, or alcohol were initially isolated and disinfected prior to students receiving them. “Peking University has been the site of very influential political protests in the past, including in the 1980s culminating in the 1989 student protests that necessitated a...