Science and Education Minister, Radovan Fuchs, warned on Friday that life would not return to normal and schools would not be able to function normally until a sufficient number of citizens got vaccinated against Covid-19, noting that his ministry was "carefully following the situation in schools," state news agency Hina said.

“There will always be someone in self-isolation unless a sufficient number of citizens get vaccinated,” Fuchs said during a visit to Zupa Dubrovacka in southern Croatia. Hina did not say why Fuchs was there. Fuchs did not say what constitutes a “sufficient number.”

Asked by reporters “about the situation after the school break next week,” Fuchs said that “he would be able to answer the question only if he knew how the epidemiological situation would unfold,” but nonetheless, that it seemed that “something has changed in citizens’ attitude” as more were willing to get vaccinated, Hina quoted Fuchs as saying.

He dismissed the remark that the quality of education could be compromised, Hina added, without saying whose remark he was dismissing, but reported that Fuchs continued to “stress that the experience of last year showed that the distribution of online classes was even,” and that his ministry was following decisions made by local Covid-19 response teams, and had a “very good database” on the number of students and teachers currently ill or in self-isolation.