The test sites for the national college entrance examination, or gaokao, were disinfected to nip the risk of infecting the virus during the exam. The exam has been delayed for one month to July 7 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photos: Xinhua)

Zhounan High School in Changsha, the capital city of Central China’s Hunan Province, held a rehearsal for the upcoming exam on July 3, and epidemic prevention workers were tasked with disinfecting the quarantine test rooms for students who develop symptoms similar to COVID-19 during the exam.

A teacher and her students sanitized the desks and chairs with alcohol wipes on July 3.

Teachers went through the rehearsal of having their temperature taken before entering the test sites at Beijing No.12 High School on July 3.

A school doctor checked and sorted out the medical goods needed for handling emergency situations related to COVID-19 infection during the exam period at Beijing No. 12 High School on July 3.

The staff of Taiyuan No.2 Experimental High School in North China’s Shanxi Province rehearsed leading a student running a fever to an isolated test room on July 3.

Teachers go through the procedures in a rehearsal of the exam at Beijing No.12 High School on July 3.

A teacher at Tianjin High School pasted the seat number card on the desk on July 3 to make sure the students can find their assigned seats immediately after they enter the classrooms for testing.