China: Students Are Returning To School With Isolation Hats

Chandran |May 05, 2020

Zhejiang's province School Board has come up with isolation hats for students to prevent coronavirus to spread on school premises. It received positive comments from Chinese netizens for its simplicity.

Students in Hangzhou, China are returning to school with do-it-yourself carton hats which they call "Isolation Hats". They wing out to the width of 2-meter and are added to the uniform.

isolation hat 1 — Teachers give their students the task of decorating their own "isolation hat".

The longest-ever winter break to elementary school students in Hangzhou has finally come to an end. This is possible due to the decision by the Education Board to let students from grade 1 to 3 to resume going to school. Right after the announcement, Yangzheng Elementary School has made headlines by assigning its students an interesting homework. The work is to decorate their own isolation hat and bring them to school every day.

Hangzhou Isolation Hat — Hangzhou city allowed students to return to school last week

Photos of students’ isolation hats are circulating China’s Weibo platform, receiving positive feedbacks as “cute”, “simple yet effective”,… Each wing of a hat spans out exactly at 1 meter, making a radius of 2 meters. This is the minimum space 2 people must keep from each other in order to prevent possible contraction.

Isolation Hat 4 — These simple hats help students to keep a 2-meter distance from each other.

This home-made method is hoped to prevent the spread of coronavirus, which now 3 million people are infected with. The global death tolls rise every day and show no signs of stopping, now clocking at 210,611 casualties. According to local news outlets, students can only take them off during lunch breaks. Moreover, when exiting a classroom, they must walk side-way in order to keep the wings from hitting the walls.

Isolation Hat 5 — Students can only take these hats off at lunch.

Furthermore, every other safety protocols are in keeping with the world’s current norms. This includes checking up body temperature before entering school premises, having the mask on no matter when, and washing hands regularly, … Chinese government acted swiftly in the province of Zhejiang when they shut it down since early February. As a result, the province and its capital, Hangzhou, to become one of the least coronavirus-affected regions. China is not the only country with unique ways of preventing the spread of this virus. Check out the video below for more innovative virus-preventing methods from other nations.