On February 2020, 2, the new coronavirus infection was designated as a designated infectious disease and a quarantine infectious disease by a government ordinance, and it became a first-class infectious disease stipulated by the School Health and Safety Law Enforcement Regulations. Became impossible.

The second examination of the first half of the national and public university entrance examination started today from February 2, but since it is left to the judgment of each university to deal with students suffering from the new coronavirus, the correspondence will be decided by the university. Seems different.
At Hokkaido University and Nagoya Institute of Technology, if an examinee is infected, the secondary examination is exempted and the pass / fail is judged by the center examination or the high school survey report. Scheduled.On the other hand, the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University, etc. have indicated that they will not conduct additional examinations, but will conduct entrance examinations as usual, in order to ensure the fairness of the examinees. Regarding the announcement of the results in March, the University of Tokyo and others have announced that they will stop using the conventional off-campus postings and only use the Internet.

In addition, in order to prevent the spread of infection due to the large number of people gathering on the university campus, it has been announced that university events such as graduation ceremonies and the spring open campus for next year's examinees will be canceled one after another.

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