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Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu said on Tuesday that opening schools on February 8 is not conditional upon the teaching staff getting immunised against the COVID-19, but by epidemiological developments.
He said the joint order of ministers of education and health will include some of the measures to prevent infection with the novel coronavirus that already exist, to which others will be added.
Cimpeanu said that measures that other European states have taken in schools can be adopted, as schools there operated without any increase in the rate COVID-19 infection.
Chairman of the National Coordination Committee for COVID-19 Vaccination Activities Valeriu Gheorghita says that from January 28 all essential workers, some 35,304 people, will receive the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine 10 days behind schedule given the shortage of vaccine doses that Romania is currently facing.
