As the government phased out remote learning, students queued to enter their classrooms and attend flag raising ceremonies in their schoolyards across the Southeast Asian country.
Precautions such as temperature checks, mandatory masks and limits on the number of students per classroom remain in place.
The country's school closures were among the world's longest, with reopenings delayed by slow vaccine rollouts and elections earlier this year.
The education ministry pilot tested in-person classes involving nearly 300 schools in November, but only this week expanded that to cover all schools as the new school year began.
Currently, the education ministry requires students to learn in-person at least three days per week. It stated that beginning Nov. 2, all schools should have switched to five days of in-person classes.
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