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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 in-person classes on April 26. Vulchev expressed caution about making longer term predictions about 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 order, restaurants may open no earlier than 6am and must close no later than 11pm. Angelov’s orde...

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 10am to 4pm. To avoid crowding, it is mandatory to pre-register by phoning 0885 94 73 50. Currently, on...

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 patients with Covid-19 are in hospital, a decrease of 47 in the past day, with 755 in intensive care, an i...

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] complement the ones [we] discovered in 2018 and 2019,” explained Bulgarian archaeologists and excavati...