Łukasz Szumowski said the move would help protect “not us, the ones wearing these masks and scarves, but others from us.”
He told reporters that the COVID-19 disease was spreading in Poland, and some people who were infected showed no symptoms.
A total of 5,341 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Poland, with 164 deaths from the coronavirus so far, officials said on Thursday morning.
Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, on Thursday announced that a swathe of restrictions on daily life were being extended as the country battles the epidemic.
(pk)
Source: PAP