Shanghai said on Sunday it would reopen all schools including kindergartens, primary and middle schools on Sept. 1 after months of COVID-19 closures.
The city will require all teachers and students to take nucleic acid tests for the coronavirus every day before leaving campus, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission said.
It also called for teachers and students to carry out a 14-day "self health management" within the city ahead of the school reopening, the commission said in a statement.
Shanghai shut all schools in mid-March before the city's two-month lockdown to combat its worst COVID outbreak in April and May.
It allowed some students of high school and middle school to return to classrooms in June while most of the rest continued home study for the remainder of the semester.
Free and mandatory weekly nucleic acid tests for Shanghai residents will be extended until the end of September as community infections are still being reported in the city, Shanghai's COVID-19 prevention authority announced on Saturday.
Citizens will be subject to at least one nucleic acid test every week till September 30. Otherwise their health code will turn yellow, preventing them from taking public transport or entering any public areas.
The free polymerase chain reaction (PCR) service at the city's various regular testing sites will be extended for another month to September 30.
