TOKYO, Jan 25 (News On Japan) –
This month, the commonest purpose for candidates who had been unable to take the National Center Test for University Admissions and needed to take a make-up examination was influenza, with COVID-19 infections dropping to one-fifth of final yr’s numbers.
The National Center for University Entrance Examinations reported on the twenty fourth that 1,629 people had been unable to sit down for the principle examination on January thirteenth and 14th and at the moment are eligible for the make-up examination scheduled for the weekend of January twenty seventh and twenty eighth. This quantity is the fourth highest on file, together with when the take a look at was referred to as the National Center Test for University Admissions.
The most frequent trigger for lacking the principle examination was influenza, affecting 495 people. COVID-19 infections numbered 366, a major lower from final yr, when over 2,100 folks had been affected, together with those that had been in shut contact with contaminated people. Other sicknesses included the widespread chilly, which accounted for 205 folks, and gastroenteritis, affecting 147 folks. Additionally, 19 people who had been unable to take the principle examination because of the Noto Peninsula earthquake may even take the make-up examination.
The make-up exams shall be held at 5 venues in Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Kyoto, and Osaka, in addition to at Kanazawa University in Ishikawa Prefecture, as a particular measure in response to the Noto Peninsula earthquake.
Source: NHK