SCHOOL The National Committee
\nfor Emergency Situations in Romania decided to extend the online education
\nprocess until February 7th. The suspension of activities involving
\nthe physical presence of preschoolers and students in schools and other
\neducation facilities comes right after the winter holiday. Education Minister
\nSorin Campeanu had earlier specified that students could return to schools
\nstarting February 8th. At a meeting with trade unions in the field,
\nrepresentatives of parents and students’ associations, Campeanu said that it
\nall depends on the evolution of the pandemic adding that schools are going to
\nopen differently taking into account the infection rate in the region. The
\nopposition PSD and AUR as well as the ruling UDMR are favoring the reopening of
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REPATRIATION The Romanian sailor kidnapped from the Agisilaos ship off the
\nshores of Togo has been released and is to be repatriated in the following
\ndays, the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest has announced today. According to the
\nsame sources, in order to settle the incident, the Crisis Management Cell set
\nup on this occasion, has made a lot of efforts, which involved the company
\nwhich hired the Romanian and other international partners. On November 30th
\n2020, sources with the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest announced that Minister
\nAurescu had summoned an inter-institutional crisis management cell to address
\nthe incident in Togo involving the Agisilaos, where several sailors, including
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DECISION The government in Bucharest is expected to pass an emergency
\nordinance to grant additional sums of money to the medical personnel involved
\nin the anti-Covid National Vaccination Campaign. Under the draft, physicians
\nare to receive 20 Euros per hour and nurses 10, Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu
\nsaid. Family physicians are also going to get more money as they are considered
\nan essential pillar in the immunization campaign. Roughly 100 thousand people
\nhave been immunized since the onset of the campaign; out of these only 314
\nreported minor side effects. Romania has so far received nearly 300 thousand
\ndoses and 120 thousand of these doses have been directed to vaccination points.
\nRoughly 5,000 fresh Covid infections were reported on Friday, most of them in
\ncapital Bucharest. The death toll exceeds 16,500 and 11 hundred are in
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HANDBALL Romania’s vice-champions in
\nwomen’s handball, CSM Bucharest are in Budapest to take on local side
\nFerencvaros Budapest in their first match counting towards the Champions League
\nGroup A. The first game went to the Romanians 25-19. CSM ranks second in the
\ngroup with 11 points whereas Ferencvaros comes fourth with 8. On Sunday in the
\nChampions League’s Group B, Romanian champions, SCM Ramnicu Valcea are taking
\non another Hungarian side, Gyor in a home match. The Romanians are last in
\ntheir group with no point out of 5 games played. Two other Romanian sides are
\nmaking their debut in the European League: Minaur Baia Mare takes on Norwegian
\nside Storhamar Handball Elite, while Dunarea Braila are up against French side
\nFleury Loiret on Sunday. <\/p>\n
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