Myanmar has reopened 6,526 high schools in the country's regions and states since July 21, excluding Rakhine state, where increasing number of infection cases of COVID-19 were reported, according to an announcement from the Education Ministry on Tuesday.

"Scrutiny processes are being carried out to reopen the rest high schools soon, but reopening of middle and primary schools cannot be set yet as it may depend on the situation of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country," Director General U Ko Lay Win of Basic Education Department under the ministry told Xinhua.

According to the official, some 120 of over 420 high schools recently reopened in Rakhine state, but later all schools were suspended, as part of measures to effectively curb the spread of COVID-19 in the state as the it is seeing rocketing number of locally transmitted cases in a week.

Myanmar's academic year usually starts in June, but this year's term was delayed due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country.

Under new normal ways, the schools reopened with full compliance of preventive measures such as socially distanced classrooms, multiple-shift systems and others.

There are 7,173 high schools and 1.2 million high school students registering across the country.

As of Tuesday, Myanmar has reported 474 laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 with six deaths so far, according to figures by the Health and Sports Ministry.