Heavy rain in Hanoi, many high schools and universities switch to online learning

mưa - Ảnh 1. — School flooded by storms in late September - Photo: HUST Media Department

Early on the morning of October 7, due to the impact of storm No. 11 (storm Matmo) causing prolonged heavy rain and serious flooding, many schools in Hanoi issued urgent notices, telling students to stay home and switch to online learning.

A series of schools urgently announced school closures or online learning.

A series of schools that have allowed students to switch to online learning include Luong The Vinh Secondary and High School (Cau Giay), Nguyen Tat Thanh Secondary and High School, Archimedes Primary School, Doan Thi Diem Primary School, Trung Mau Primary School, Hanoi National University of Education High School for the Gifted...

Greenkids Kindergarten announces that currently, the school's staff cannot go out due to widespread flooding. To ensure absolute safety for students and teachers, the school will let all students take a day off on October 7 and will announce a make-up class schedule later.

Bach Duong Primary School and Tu Lien Primary School announced that students will be off school on October 7 and will not organize online learning.

Nghia Tan Secondary School (Nghia Do Ward) also had an urgent announcement, sent to the Zalo group of classes with the content: "Given the current weather, it will be very difficult for students to go to school because it is raining very heavily (about more than 2 hours), the school has decided that today, Tuesday (October 7), the whole school will switch to online learning. The school will announce the students' return to in-person learning when the weather is favorable"...

Many universities switch to online learning

This morning, October 7, Hanoi University of Science and Technology announced that after updating the situation of continuous rain since early morning, many streets in Hanoi were flooded, the school decided to let all classes switch from in-person to online learning on October 7.

The National Economics University also switched its class schedule to online and postponed mass gathering activities on October 7 such as new student health check-ups, extracurricular activities, sports, seminars... to ensure safety.

Hanoi University of Civil Engineering urgently announces that it will postpone all exams 1 and 2 and arrange a make-up exam schedule. The school will continue to update the following exams depending on the weather situation. In addition, students studying in shifts 1 and 2 will also switch to online learning due to the impact of extreme weather.

Similarly, the East Asia University of Technology also had to announce online learning and postpone exams on October 7 due to storms.

Hanoi University of Industry, Hanoi University, University of Foreign Languages (Hanoi National University), University of Industrial Economics and Technology, University of Science and Technology... have also proactively announced switching to online learning to ensure the safety of students and lecturers.

The Northern Hydrometeorological Station forecasts that due to the influence of the weakened low pressure circulation from storm Matmo combined with wind convergence developing up to 5,000m, this morning (October 7), Hanoi will have moderate rain, heavy rain and thunderstorms with common rainfall from 30 - 50mm, in some places over 70mm.

From noon on October 7 to tomorrow morning, Hanoi will have scattered showers and thunderstorms, then rain in some places.

"Thunderstorms can be accompanied by tornadoes, lightning and strong gusts of wind that can break trees, damage houses, traffic works and infrastructure.

Moderate and heavy rain in a short period of time overloads the urban drainage system, causing flooding in residential areas, urban areas and low-lying areas, and traffic jams due to flooded roads" - the Northern Hydrometeorological Station warned.

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