SINGAPORE: Student Carolyn Tan was on the bus to the airport to board a plane back to Singapore when she received an email from her university ...
Some students at her university even started a petition to the school to request for a refund of school fees. Adding that no one knows how the situation in New York will change in the coming weeks, she said: “I feel like I’m very unhappy about this, but I made this choice.”
“In the end, they gave me a list of precautions to take and ordered some masks and had them shipped to my apartment. I'm still using that stash,” said the 26-year-old, who is a graduate student at the University of Missouri.“It was a bit of a struggle to find the motivation to do a lot of it. But I finally had more time to cook my own meals and save more money, so that was fun.”
Ms Jess Ng, 25, flew to Seoul to study Korean Language at the Yonsei University Korean Language Institute at the end of February, just as South Korea saw a rapid surge in the number of COVID-19 cases after a cluster of infections emerged from a religious sect in Daegu. “All the preparations were done and I wasn’t sure when would be the next best time to go ahead with it, so I just went ahead. I think it’s been pretty good here so far, I just need to constantly keep a lookout for the health advisories,” said Ms Ng, adding that she was subject to a 14-day quarantine in a single room in the school dormitory after arriving in Seoul.
“Them making the announcement sort of solidifies all the fears that we had about next year not being back to normal which, I guess we should have already known. But it just makes it more of a reality.” Some of her friends have jokingly discussed taking a gap year because they feel they would miss out on university life if they return to the UK to complete their studies amid COVID-19 social distancing measures.
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