Chinese students in the global virus epicentre of Wuhan filed back to class, wearing masks and walking in single file past thermal scanners.
Secondary school students in 121 institutions were back in the classroom for the first time since their city shut down in January.
Teenagers sat at individual desks spaced a metre apart, seeing their teachers in the flesh after months of distance learning.
Today's back-to-school was the latest step in a gradual normalising of life in Wuhan and surrounding Hubei province, where the coronavirus is believed to have emerged late last year before spreading around the world.