By Reuters Staff
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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.”
The COVID-19 pandemic is on the rise again in Poland, the health minister said on Tuesday, a worrying turnaround after case numbers stabilised following a second wave of infections last autumn.