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Poland imposes lockdown on two more regions as pandemic surges

15.03.2021 07:15
Poland on Monday imposed a partial lockdown on two additional provinces amid soaring coronavirus cases.
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Polands Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announces the regional lockdowns during a virtual press conference earlier this month.
Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announces the regional lockdowns during a virtual press conference earlier this month.Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka

Restrictions came into force in the country's central Mazowieckie region, which includes the national capital Warsaw, and in the western province of Lubuskie, where the level of infections has caused concern.

Hotels, shopping malls, cinemas, theatres, museums and swimming pools in these two regions have been ordered to shut, while young schoolchildren have in part returned to remote classes.

Earlier, a range of restrictions on public life were reintroduced in the northern Pomerania province and in the northeastern region of Warmińsko-Mazurskie amid a spike in COVID-19 cases.

Pandemic restrictions in the rest of the country are expected to remain unchanged until at least March 28 following an easing of containment measures earlier this year.

Public health officials have warned that the daily number of new COVID-19 infections in the country is starting to rise again in a worrying new trend.

Poland on Sunday reported 17,259 new coronavirus infections and 110 more deaths, bringing its total number of cases during the pandemic to 1,906,632 and fatalities to 47,178.

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Source: IAR

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