Nearly two-thirds or around 42,000
students from 5th to 12th grade are attending in person, according to the Minister of Education Krassimir Valchev.
This happened with an order of the Minister of Health Kostadin Angelov from yesterday, which allowed the holding of face-to-face classes for all
students from fifth to twelfth grade in classes that are the only ones in the respective class of the school.
These are nearly 2,900 classes in the country. Currently, a total of 460 thousand children attend classrooms, and 260,000 study in an electronic environment from a distance.
There are 240,000 children of preschool age who attend kindergartens, said Valchev.
in March at the earliest
Two million Bulgarians will be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of June with the three vaccines currently approved, Bogdan Kirilov, Executive Director of the Drug Agency, has told bTV. If more vaccines are added to the list, the number of vaccinated people will rise to 2.5 million. When we start receiving sufficient amounts of all vaccines, we will proceed to mass immunization, Bogdan Kirilov also said. According to him, this could happen in March or April. In February alone, we are expected to receive 400,000 doses of EU-approved vaccines, the head of the Drug Agency added. He said that it was yet to be decided whether the AstraZeneca vaccine would be administered to people over 65 years of age.
Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Day 299 published on 12/31/20 7:32 PM
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Percentage of coronavirus tests returning positive on the rise again
1,729 is the number of newly registered Covid-19 cases in Bulgaria, according to data of the Single Coronavirus Information Portal from the past 24 hours. Out of the 8,475 tests performed (4,605 PCR and 3,870 antigen tests), 20.4 % have returned positive.
4,831 patients with coronavirus are being treated in hospital, of whom 467 are in intensive care. 2,933 is the number of recoveries, 110 have died. The highest number of new cases is in Sofia - 314, followed by Varna - 143 and Plovdiv with 139 newly registered coronavirus cases.
More than 4,600 inoculations against Covid-19 have been performed in Bulgaria since the start of vaccination, 714 in the past 24 hours.