After months of online learning due to the COVID-19 outbreak, students across China are finally returning to classrooms. In central China's Wuhan, the former epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, social distancing signs and temperature checkpoints are seen on campus to protect the returning students and faculty members. /Xinhua

Students at Nanchang University in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, are returning to school in batches since May 7, 2020 in an effort to prevent crowding. /Xinhua

Pupils are learning how to wash their hands, in a school in Pingdingshan, central China's Henan Province, May 8, 2020. /Xinhua