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th grades in classrooms from that day, Education Minister Krassimir Vulchev said. Speaking on April 8 at the weekly briefing on the Covid-19 situation in Bulgaria, Vulchev said that schools in Bulgaria were returning to the system that was in place up to March 22, the date when heightened restrictions left in-person classes at schools suspended and all pupils went over to distance learning. The current plan, if the situation allows, is for pupils in the fifth, ninth and 12 th grades to resume i...

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov issued an order on April 8 further easing restrictions on restaurants, among other loosening of measures against the spread of Covid-19. While his order that took effect on April 1 allowed only the open-air parts of restaurants to re-open – such as gardens and terraces – the new one allows them to open, from April 12, using up to 50 per cent of their capacity. This means that indoor parts of restaurants will be open as well. As with the previous...

The funds will provide 1 533 037 doses, the statement said. The Cabinet also decided that the additional 1000 leva a month for medical and non-medical staff in the front line against Covid-19 would continue, subject to the epidemic declaration, due to expire on April 30, being extended. In other news related to the Covid-19 situation on April 7: The first special office for Covid-19 vaccinations of people older than 65 opened at St Ivan Rilski University Hospital. The opening hours are from 10a...

A total of 132 people who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 13 918, according to the April 7 report by the national information system. Of 17 576 tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 4004 – about 22.7 per cent – proved positive. To date, 360 863 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 70 757 active cases, an increase of 1113 in the past 24 hours. A total of 10 355 patien...

St. Cyricus Discovery Is Just One Piece in a Larger Puzzle This hoplite relief isn’t something unique, but literally represents one piece of a much larger puzzle. The terracotta slab belongs to a larger relief that at some point was broken into sections. This particular piece fits neatly with other slab puzzle pieces that were discovered within the remains of the two Apollonian temples during separate excavations. “[The newly found fragments of the slab with Ancient Greek  hoplites] comp...

The deaths of 197 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 13 786, according to the April 6 report by the national information system. Of 19 210 tests done in the past 24 hours, 3860 – about 20.1 per cent – proved positive. To date, 356 859 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 69 644 active cases, an increase of 667 compared with the figure in the ...

The Fund raised its forecast, having previously projected 4.1 per cent growth in the October 2020 report. Overall, the report forecast the global economy would grow by six per cent in 2021, compared to 5.2 per cent growth forecast in its previous report, before slowing down to 4.4 per cent in 2022. The higher growth projections for 2021 and 2022 reflected “additional fiscal support in a few large economies and the anticipated vaccine-powered recovery in the second half of the year,” the IMF...

For the third consecutive week, all of Bulgaria’s 28 districts were Covid-19 “red zones”, meaning a rate of 120 or more infected per 100 000 population, according to the April 6 weekly report by the National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. Covering the 14-day period up to April 4, the report showed the situation in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia as the worst, at a rate of infection of 1002 per 100 000 population. This, however, was down from the rate of 1018 shown in the ce...

The Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association (BHRA) said on April 1 that it had lodged a complaint in the Supreme Administrative Court over Health Minister Kostadin Angelov’s March 18 order that closed spas and restaurants in hotels and other places of accommodation, without the state offering any compensation. BHRA said that since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, the hotel sector was the only one in the tourism industry that had not been compensated by the state for forced shutdowns a...

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