Ministry of Education and Science

Students from the Republic of North Macedonia might start studying higher education completely free of charge in Bulgarian universities. They might be freed from paying not only for tuition fees but also application fees. This is foreseen by the changes proposed by the Acting Minister of Education Prof. Sasho Penov in Government Decree No. 228 of 1997.

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology has stopped its protest, and weather forecasts for the media have been restored, BNT reported.

The director of the institute, Prof. Hristomir Branzov, explained that the reason was that their protest was beginning to become politicized.

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology has stopped publishing weather forecasts on its website, Krassimir Stoev told BNR, adding that it will most likely stop submitting forecasts to the media. He did not specify when this will happen.

"Bulgaria is already in the Omicron phase. Evidence of this is the continuing number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 and those admitted to intensive care units." This was commented by the former Minister of Health Dr. Mimi Vitkova on Nova TV.

Sofia will introduce anti-epidemic measures from the third stage of the pandemic management plan, Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev announced after a meeting of the pandemic committee. A decision of the national headquarters is forthcoming, in which the new measures will be described in detail. They should take effect next week.

The Minister of Education and Science Nikolay Denkov proposes that the interim vacation of students be extended for the period from January 31 to February 4 incl. This became clear from the words of the Minister of Education, Academician Nikolay Denkov, at a press conference at which he presented the priorities of the Ministry of Education and Science this year.

Attendance studying in all schools in the country can be fully restored from today. The condition is that in all municipalities with a morbidity of more than 250 per 100,000 people, students should be tested free of charge with gentle tests for COVID-19 once a week, and teachers - twice a week, said the press center of the Ministry of Education and Science / MES /.

More than 3,200 students from 5th to 12th grade returned to class in Sofia today. Most of them are in private schools. The only municipal school in the capital, the 164th Spanish-language high school, Miguel de Cervantes, managed to bring together 176 green-certified students in 8th, 9th and 10th grades. Ten of the 28 classes there are already conducting face-to-face training.

The promised by the Minister of Health 1 million tests for students turned out to be 168,800.

So many arrived by the end of yesterday, informed this morning the Ministry of Education and Science. Stoycho Katsarov promised journalists the promise for 1 million tests to be submitted yesterday.

From now on, informed consent will not be required for vaccination against COVID-19. This was announced by the Minister of Health Stoycho Katsarov.

The topic was discussed a few days ago with the director of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control Andrea Amon. Amon's opinion was that there was no medical requirement to sign such a consent.