Only 20%-25% of Bulgarian parents support distance education

Pediatricians and school authorities are to receive from the Expert Council of Pediatrtics a list with diagnoses which are precondition for some children to study online, Bulgaria’s Chief State Health Inspector Dr. Angel Kunchev told the Bulgarian National Radio. Thus, parents will be able to choose a form of education for their children. It turned out that most parents prefer to send their kids to school and only 20%-25% of them support distance learning. Pupils are to study online and will be placed under fourteen-day quarantine, if a Covid-19 case is confirmed in their class. 

Bulgarian and Greek companies protest at Ilinden-Exohi border checkpoint

Dozens of trucks and more than 50 representatives of trade and transport companies as well as farmers have gathered to protest on both sides of the Ilinden-Exohi border crossing between Bulgaria and Greece. Protesters are demanding that the border checkpoint, which is closed until August 31, be open to trucks. They claim the closure of the border in this section since July 22, by a decision of the Greek authorities, violates the basic principle of the EU - the free movement of persons, goods and capital. The demonstrators call on the diplomats of the two countries - Bulgaria and Greece, to solve the problem as soon as possible, otherwise they warn the currently operational border checkpoint at Kulata-Promachonas will be blocked.

Number of cured patients exceeds new infections in past 24 hours

For the past 24 hours, 151 new cases of Covid-19 infection have been registered in Bulgaria, with 8,649 PCR tests performed. According to the National Information Portal, 752 people are currently being treated in hospital and 60 are in intensive care. For the past 24 hours, 232 people have been cured and 8 patients have died. The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Bulgaria has reached 14,820 and total number of fatalities - 527. The highest number of new cases has been registered in Blagoevgrad - 24, Plovdiv and Sofia - 19 each, Varna - 12, Dobrich - 11, Ruse and Yambol - 8 each. 

MEP: We have been talking about single health protocol since beginning of pandemic

The issue about the single health protocol on Covid-19, the border form and the restrictions on freedom of movement in the EU should be raised next week when the new session of the European Parliament begins, MEP Andrey Kovatchev told BNR. MEP Kovatchev said he asked the European Commission about the lack of a single medical protocol on Covid-19. In the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, this institution had demanded a single response to the crisis and did not want each country to close or open its border separately, Andrey Kovatchev specified.

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