Science and technology

A member of the Crisis Staff, epidemiologist Predrag Kon, said that the potential of the coronavirus was slowly declining, but also warned that "we should not allow the situation to get worse."

At the moment Greece is unveiling the 5G communications network, on the opposite end of Europe, a Greek professor, a communications engineer, is getting a grant from the European Research Council to develop 6G.

However, as he said, "reality is as it is" and that "they will consider this decision again".
He said on RTS that he did not even know why the application of the measure that one can enter Serbia only with a negative PCR test was postponed for two days and is valid only from midnight.

2,042 are the new cases of COVID-19 for the last 24 hours in Bulgaria. 6 825 PCR tests were performed. Nearly 30 percent of them are positive. This is shown by the data on the Unified Information Portal.

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Most new cases are in Sofia - 361, followed by Varna - with 207 and Burgas - 202 new cases.

The government has approved the Concept for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in Bulgaria by 2030.

The concept provides for systems, applications and services based on artificial intelligence technologies to support the development of education, public services, agriculture, health and the environment.

The tender for the auction of the fifth-generation wireless telecommunication network (5G) frequencies may be scheduled for this Wednesday, but the question is how fast this fast technology can roll out across Greece.

Ljubljana – Telecommunications company T-2 has launched a pilot 5G network at its headquarters in Ljubljana on Wednesday to test the equipment and the services it intends to offer once it has acquired a frequency spectrum at an incoming national auction.

The US Embassy in Athens and the Greek nonprofit organization SciCo on Thursday announced next year's STEM Stars Greece, a competition that supports, highlights and rewards 14- to 18-year-old students interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). 

At today's session, the Crisis Staff discussed the epidemic situation and the possible introduction of new measures, considering that St. Nicholas, New Year's and Christmas holidays are imminent.
The measure of introducing mandatory quarantine and PCR test for Serbian citizens who would come from abroad was discussed, but the decision on that has not been made yet, RTS reports.

The number of newly infected with coronavirus in the country is 3328 for the last 24 hours, according to the data of the Unified Information System.

This is 38.7% of the 8578 PCR tests performed for the specified period.The cured patients again for another consecutive day are over three thousand people - 3050.