{"id":19498,"date":"2020-05-07T11:47:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19498"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:57:49","slug":"government-gives-go-ahead-to-in-person-post-secondary-classes-in-september-if-covid-19-numbers-allow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/05\/07\/government-gives-go-ahead-to-in-person-post-secondary-classes-in-september-if-covid-19-numbers-allow\/","title":{"rendered":"Government gives go-ahead to in-person post-secondary classes in September if COVID-19 numbers allow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BC premier John Horgan announced on Wednesday, May 6 a detailed plan for the gradual re-opening of the province, and part of that plan includes post-secondary classes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19499\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49864248983_8212a6ca62_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49864248983_8212a6ca62_o-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49864248983_8212a6ca62_o-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49864248983_8212a6ca62_o.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BC premier John Horgan (middle) announces the province&#8217;s re-opening plan (photo by Province of British Columbia).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Phase three of the re-opening plan will take place from June to September, provided transmission rates of COVID-19 remain low or in decline; part of that phase involves allowing a mix of online and in-person classes for post-secondary institutions, starting in September.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Camosun College declined to comment, saying that they needed more information before they could fully understand the implications of the announcement for the post-secondary sector.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, May 7, there are 2,255 cases of COVID-19 in British Columbia; 1,494 of these cases have recovered and there have been 124 deaths, for a total of 637 active cases in the province.<\/p>\n<p>More on this story as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC premier John Horgan announced on Wednesday, May 6 a detailed plan for the gradual re-opening of the province, and part of that plan includes post-secondary classes. Phase three of the re-opening plan will take place from June to September, provided transmission rates of COVID-19 remain low or in decline; part of that phase involves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19502,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498\/revisions\/19502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}