Montana

Students in the 13 districts of Bulgaria, who already have tests and whose parents agree for the children to be tested twice a week, can return to class from today, November 10, the press center of the Ministry of Education and Science / MES announced. /.

Students in 15 districts of the country will continue to study online until another 200,000 COVID-19 tests ordered by the Ministry of Health arrive.

Last week, the health ministry signed contracts with two distributors for a total of 400,000 units. One supplier fulfilled its commitment to 200,000 tests, which were immediately distributed.

There are 4,662 newly diagnosed persons with COVID-19 in Bulgaria in the past 24 hours. 2,160 of them were detected by PCR and 2,502 by rapid antigen tests.

86.10% of the new cases, proven for the last 24 hours, are of persons who have not been vaccinated, the Unified Information Portal shows.

Parents and teachers who do not agree with the testing of children at school are protesting today. Apart from Sofia, similar manifestations of dissatisfaction are expected in other cities of the country.

The protest is gaining followers on social media, where it was announced.

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Some of the country's hospitals are already on the brink their capabilities of receiving covid patients. There will be restructuring and reorientation of medical teams in hospitals in Sofia.

About a third of the districts in Bulgaria are already in the most alarming dark red COVID zone, where the new infected per 100 thousand population for a period of 14 days are over 500 people.

Today it will be cloudy and rainy, and the rains will continue during the night against Saturday. This was announced for FOCUS News Agency by the weather forecaster on duty Martin Slavchev from the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH).

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Oct. 11 to prohibit any entity, including private business, from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers and called on state lawmakers to pass a similar ban into law.

Yellow code for heavy rainfall is in force for 14 districts in the country on 9 October. This is indicated by a reference on the NIMH website. These are Vidin, Montana, Vratsa, Sofia region, Sofia, Pernik, Kyustendil, Blagoevgrad, Pazardzhik, Smolyan, Kardzhali, Plovdiv, Lovech and Haskovo. The expected amount of precipitation is between 25 and 30 millimeters.

"We are in the fourth wave in full swing, after a certain hold, which we hoped was a plateau, now we see that, although weak, the growth continues."

This was commented in tv interview by the Chief State Health Inspector Assoc. Prof. Angel Kunchev.