On the threshold of the new school year, the Ministry of Education and Science introduces temporary anti-epidemic measures in nurseries, kindergartens and schools.

They will be effective from September 15th and will continue until October 16th.  

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This year there will be no tests and no masks, but physical distance will have to be observed, and classes will start at different times if possible.

Principals will have to provide a two-shift mode of face-to-face training.

Classrooms should be ventilated every hour for at least 5 minutes. 

A total of 1,401 first-graders will cross the threshold of schools in Stara Zagora

"This organization is very complicated, and for the third year in a row.

We have preserved all the markings that are on the floor of the building, so that there can be movement in one direction of the students", said Diyan Stamatov, chairman of the Union of Employers in Education and director of 119 secondary schools. 

"Most likely, these temporary measures will work because the children are used to complying with them, but the question is more about how well these measures are justified and whether it will not start another online year. It will be difficult to keep a distance mainly in the little children who are waiting to see their friends," said Stanislava Velichkova, mother of a student. 

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