UPDATE 1-Poland tightens quarantine rules after cases of Indian COVID-19 variant Reuters 5/4/2021
WARSAW, May 4 (Reuters) - People travelling to Poland from Brazil, India and South Africa will have to quarantine, the Polish health minister said on Tuesday, as he announced cases of a COVID-19 variant first detected in India in the Warsaw and Katowice areas.
The outbreaks poses a fresh risk to Poland just as it starts to emerge from a highly damaging third wave of the pandemic. In the case of Brazil, India and South Africa, people travelling from these locations will automatically have to quarantine without the possibility of getting an exception due to a test, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski told a news conference.
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WARSAW, April 19 (Reuters) - Poland may be able to open up a significant part of the economy at the end of May or beginning of June, depending on progress with COVID-19 vaccinations, the prime minister said on Monday.
Emerging Europe’s largest economy last week extended restrictions that have forced the closure of hotels, cinemas, hair salons and many shops.
“We are getting closer to the turning point,” Mateusz Morawiecki told a news conference. “(This) may in the coming weeks lead to a situation in which, at the turn of May and June, it will be possible to unfreeze a significant part of the economy.”
Poland will raise the upper age limit for people being given the AstraZeneca vaccine to 69, and will take COVID-19 patients from neighbouring Slovakia, a health ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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WARSAW, March 4 (Reuters) - Poland could loosen coronavirus restrictions in May, provided a third wave of the pandemic peaks between March and April, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Thursday.
Poland’s new daily coronavirus cases will reach 15,250 on Thursday, he said, having jumped to 15,698 on Wednesday in one of the biggest spikes since November.
“Maybe after (the Easter holidays) we will be able to make more forthright decisions about loosening restrictions if we see that the pandemic’s peak is behind us,” Niedzielski told Polish web portal WP.pl.