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As of today, another 42,000 students from junior high and high school study in attendance, reported Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev during a working meeting convened by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov with representatives of the National Operational Headquarters, the vaccination task force and ministers.
Minister Valchev informed that nearly 2,900 grades in the country are already being taught in person as a result of yesterday s order of the Minister of Health. Currently, a total of 460,000 children attend classrooms, and 260,000 study remotely. Besides, there are 240,000 preschool children who attend kindergartens, said Minister Valchev.
Prime Minister Borissov was adamant that in-person training is of great importance to students. With regard to vaccination, the Prime Minister stressed the importance of the process going as quickly as possible. The vaccine is our weapon and we must return to normal life soon, that s what people expect of us, B
Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Day 338 published on 2/8/21 7:25 PM
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Health authorities in Bulgaria decide to accelerate vaccination against Covid-19
All delivered quantities of the AstraZeneca vaccine should be used for administering the first dose of the vaccination, Bulgaria s National Vaccine Task Force decided. This will cover larger groups of the population and will speed up immunization. The vaccine body will recommend that medical professionals administer the second dose of the vaccine 10 weeks after the first.
The members of the vaccination authorities expressed the opinion that the Oxford vaccine can be used for vaccination of all Bulgarian citizens over 18 years of age, the Bulgarian Ministry of Health announced.
Bulgaria is in the initial phase of an upsurge in morbidity, and the number of patients with COVID-19 in medical institutions is also increasing, albeit slightly. At the same time, the vaccination process is stepped-up. The payment of additional BGN 1,000 to all medical teams on the frontline of the battle with the novel virus continues
A further BGN 50 million has been transferred to the National Revenue Agency in order to continue the payment to the sectors under lockdown, the implementation of all other anti-crisis measures in support of business and citizens is also underway. This was reported at a working meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, attended by Health Minister Kostadin Angelov, Economy Minister Lachezar Borisov, representatives of the National Operational Headquarters and the vaccination task force.
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„We have redirected resources worth of BGN 500 million to the competitiveness program. Thus, we released funds from the Bulgarian Development Bank for financial instruments. The new design of the measure is currently underway. Under the 60/40 payroll support measure, nearly BGN 800 million reached the
business,” said Minister of Economy Lachezar Borisov.
The 60/40 measure will be in effect until September. Large and small companies will receive a grant of up to BGN 50,000. He also said that talks on the React EU program would continue.
Borisov said he had spoken to the restaurateurs: I had a meeting with them on Friday. I assured them that we would pursue the measures if the restrictions should continue. We are in touch with the National Operative Headquarters and the Minister of Health. According to him, the mobilized resource of the the Fund of Funds is about BGN 800 million.