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SCHOOL The National Committee for Emergency Situations in Romania decided to extend the online education process until February 7th. The suspension of activities involving the physical presence of preschoolers and students in schools and other education facilities comes right after the winter holiday. Education Minister Sorin Campeanu had earlier specified that students could return to schools starting February 8th. At a meeting with trade unions in the field, representatives of parents and students' associations, Campeanu said that it all depends on the evolution of the pandemic adding that schools are going to open differently taking into account the infection rate in the region. The opposition PSD and AUR as well as the ruling UDMR are favoring the reopening of schools, which they believe can be done next week.
REPATRIATION The Romanian sailor kidnapped from the Agisilaos ship off the shores of Togo has been released and is to be repatriated in the following days, the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest has announced today. According to the same sources, in order to settle the incident, the Crisis Management Cell set up on this occasion, has made a lot of efforts, which involved the company which hired the Romanian and other international partners. On November 30th 2020, sources with the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest announced that Minister Aurescu had summoned an inter-institutional crisis management cell to address the incident in Togo involving the Agisilaos, where several sailors, including a Romanian citizen, had been kidnapped.
DECISION The government in Bucharest is expected to pass an emergency ordinance to grant additional sums of money to the medical personnel involved in the anti-Covid National Vaccination Campaign. Under the draft, physicians are to receive 20 Euros per hour and nurses 10, Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu said. Family physicians are also going to get more money as they are considered an essential pillar in the immunization campaign. Roughly 100 thousand people have been immunized since the onset of the campaign; out of these only 314 reported minor side effects. Romania has so far received nearly 300 thousand doses and 120 thousand of these doses have been directed to vaccination points. Roughly 5,000 fresh Covid infections were reported on Friday, most of them in capital Bucharest. The death toll exceeds 16,500 and 11 hundred are in intensive care.
HANDBALL Romania's vice-champions in women's handball, CSM Bucharest are in Budapest to take on local side Ferencvaros Budapest in their first match counting towards the Champions League Group A. The first game went to the Romanians 25-19. CSM ranks second in the group with 11 points whereas Ferencvaros comes fourth with 8. On Sunday in the Champions League's Group B, Romanian champions, SCM Ramnicu Valcea are taking on another Hungarian side, Gyor in a home match. The Romanians are last in their group with no point out of 5 games played. Two other Romanian sides are making their debut in the European League: Minaur Baia Mare takes on Norwegian side Storhamar Handball Elite, while Dunarea Braila are up against French side Fleury Loiret on Sunday.
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