New restrictions in Bucharest – The new rules that come into force on Monday

New restrictions in Bucharest. From tomorrow, March 8, 2021, new measures will be applied in the Capital, for the next 14 days, decided, in Sunday’s meeting, the Bucharest Municipality Committee for Emergency Situations (CMBSU).

The Bucharest Municipality Committee for Emergency Situations decided, in Sunday’s meeting, to enter the red scenario, starting with 08.03 .2021, at 00:00, for a period of 14 days.

The incidence rate referred to by the authorities is 3.05, recorded since Friday. On Saturday, the cumulative incidence was already 3.12 per thousand.

– The indoor activity of restaurants, pubs, bars is prohibited.

– The terraces remain open.

– The gambling halls will be closed, except for those of the Romanian Lottery where tickets for the Romanian Lottery draws will be sold.

-The educational units will carry out their activity with the physical presence for the students from the 8th and 12th grades, but also the final classes of the vocational schools. Preschoolers and grades I-IV will be able to physically attend classes.

– By rotation, half of the students in a class will come to school for 14 days.

– It is forbidden to organize and carry out the activity with the public in cinemas, performance institutions and / or concerts, including those of the drive-in type;

– The activity of restaurants and cafes inside hotels, boarding houses or other accommodation units is prohibited, except for the service of persons accommodated inside these units;

-It is forbidden to organize and hold outdoor shows, concerts, public and private festivals or other cultural events;

-It is allowed to prepare, market and consume food and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in specially designed spaces located outside buildings, outdoors, as well as in public spaces if they have a ceiling and a single wall with a minimum distance of 2 meters between meals and the participation of a maximum of 6 people in a meal, if they are from different families, and in compliance with health protection measures established by joint order of the Minister of Health, Minister of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism and the President of the National Sanitary Veterinary Authority and Food Safety;

-It is allowed to organize with the physical presence of the simultaneous national exams, the exams for the final years and the remedial hours for all classes

“It is mandatory to wear a protective mask, so as to cover the nose and mouth for all persons who have reached the age of 5, in all open public spaces”, it is also shown in the CMBSU decision.

The city of Bucharest left the red scenario on January 25.

The news is being updated.

Ministry of Education: Remedial hours included in the “School after school” program, remunerated with 100 lei / hour gross

The remedial activities provided by the teachers, at the level of the educational unit, within the national pilot program of type “School after school”, will be remunerated with the amount of 100 lei / hour – gross tariff, it is shown in an order issued by the Minister of Education for completing the methodological norms for applying the program for students up to and including the 8th grade.

According to a communiqué of the Ministry of Education, the schedule of remedial activities will be established at the level of the educational unit, by the teacher, in consultation with the students and their parents or legal representatives.

“The remedial learning activities carried out within the national pilot program of the type” School after school “, provided by the teachers, are remunerated with the amount of 100 lei / hour – gross tariff”, it is shown in the order.

The Minister’s order also provides for the flexibility of the program for remedial activities by the fact that schools will be able to organize the program without the approval of the school inspectorate and support students to follow the remedial program in the school where they are enrolled, being considered ex officio organizing units, all educational units in which at least one group of students can be organized.

According to the ministry’s communiqué, the order establishes the inclusion in the program, unconditionally of deadlines, of the students, in a continuous way and adapted to their needs.

Parents or legal representatives of students will be able to submit applications to include these students in the program, continuously, until the 25th of each month.

The Minister of Education, Sorin Cîmpeanu, informed, on Saturday evening, that over 225,000 students were registered to participate in the remedial classes, which will be able to be organized in physical form in all schools in the localities where the COVID-19 incidence rate is lower of 6 per thousand, ie they are not quarantined.

The Minister of Education specified that according to the centralized data on Friday from the communications of the county school inspectorates, 75,000 students in primary education, 60,000 in secondary education and 90,000 in high school education were enrolled for remedial classes.

Câmpeanu underlined that according to the amendments brought on Saturday to the joint order of the Ministers of Education and Health regarding the measures of organizing the activity within the educational units / institutions in epidemiological safety conditions, the remedial classes will be held with the measures of organizing the activity within the units / educational institutions in epidemiologically safe conditions “regardless of the scenario, regardless of the class”, in schools in localities that are not quarantined, ie the incidence is less than 6 per thousand inhabitants.

“Students are allowed access to the national recovery program, remedial classes, regardless of scenario, regardless of class, physical presence is allowed. This is absolutely essential, because as I said, what has been lost due to online teaching cannot be recovered through online teaching, physical presence is needed, and this ministerial order today allows for the physical presence of students who I support the recovery classes indirectly in class, regardless of the scenario, up to 6 per thousand “, declared Minister Cîmpeanu, on Antena 3.

Also, Minister Câmpeanu also showed that even at these remedial hours, the anti-COVID-19 prevention norms provided for schools will be observed.

According to the joint order of the Minister of Education and the Minister of Health no. 3459/280 / 06.03.2021, published on Saturday by the Ministry of Education, “it is allowed to organize with the physical presence, in the educational units from the localities where the cumulative incidence in the last 14 days is less than 6/1000 inhabitants of:
simulations of national exams and exams for the final years; national assessments; remedial classes for all classes ”.

At the same time, according to the order of the Ministry of Education, which establishes the methodology of remedial classes, and the actual activities will start on March 8.

Students for whom recovery classes are organized are those who did not have access or had poor access to educational activities carried out through technology and the Internet; are in a situation of correction at the end of the first semester of the school year 2020-2021 or have an unfinished school situation in at least one discipline; they need this activity considering the school results obtained in the previous semester or at the initial evaluation at the beginning of the second semester.

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