site.btaInfection Rate at 0.01% among Youngest Students after School Starts Weekly Testing
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Infection Rate at 0.01% among Youngest
Students after School
Starts Weekly Testing
Sofia, November 10 (BTA) - The infection rate among the youngest pupils in Bulgaria was 0.01 per cent after schools started COVID testing first- to fourth-graders Wednesday in order to make sure it is safe to resume in-person classes. Caretaker Education Minister Nikolai Denkov told a briefing that out of 37,832 children, five had tested positive: two in Sofia and one in Varna, Dobrich and Pazardzhik each.
On Wednesday, pupils in 2,538 classes attended school in person. Of those classes, 1,471 were in Sofia and the rest were in 12 regions which had been supplied with test kits.
Also on Wednesday, 2,717 teachers were tested, of whom six tested positive: three in Varna and one each in Gabrovo, Dobrich and Sofia. Out of 1,507 non-teaching staff, two people in Varna and one in Sofia tested positive.
Pupils in 15 regions could not return to school because a company which had been contracted to supply non-invasive test kits failed to deliver them. The Health Ministry has placed a larger order, this time for 1,460,000 test kits, and if they arrive in the coming days, there will be a month's worth of them, said Denkov.
After the first day of testing, Sofia's Deputy Mayor Miroslav Borshosh, who is responsible for education, urged the Health Ministry to promptly allow students in grades 5 to 12 to return to school. LN/DD
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DD2026.123
123 COVID-19 - TESTING - YOUNG PUPILS
Infection Rate at 0.01% among Youngest
Students after School
Starts Weekly Testing
Sofia, November 10 (BTA) - The infection rate among the youngest pupils in Bulgaria was 0.01 per cent after schools started COVID testing first- to fourth-graders Wednesday in order to make sure it is safe to resume in-person classes. Caretaker Education Minister Nikolai Denkov told a briefing that out of 37,832 children, five had tested positive: two in Sofia and one in Varna, Dobrich and Pazardzhik each.
On Wednesday, pupils in 2,538 classes attended school in person. Of those classes, 1,471 were in Sofia and the rest were in 12 regions which had been supplied with test kits.
Also on Wednesday, 2,717 teachers were tested, of whom six tested positive: three in Varna and one each in Gabrovo, Dobrich and Sofia. Out of 1,507 non-teaching staff, two people in Varna and one in Sofia tested positive.
Pupils in 15 regions could not return to school because a company which had been contracted to supply non-invasive test kits failed to deliver them. The Health Ministry has placed a larger order, this time for 1,460,000 test kits, and if they arrive in the coming days, there will be a month's worth of them, said Denkov.
After the first day of testing, Sofia's Deputy Mayor Miroslav Borshosh, who is responsible for education, urged the Health Ministry to promptly allow students in grades 5 to 12 to return to school. LN/DD
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