Poland: Shopping malls, restaurants, hotels and other services reopen

THE Poland announced a gradual reopening of its economy in May as it emerges from a third wave of the new coronavirus epidemic, scheduling its malls to reopen next Tuesday and hotels, restaurants and other services open later that month. , reports ΑΠΕ.

Poland’s healthcare system had reached its limits during the third wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, in which the country recorded record numbers of daily new cases of coronavirus and deaths from COVID-19 before its peak in April.

“The data we are getting on infections allow us to make a decision to thaw the economy and offer some ground for restrained optimism,” he said. Mateusz Morawiecki in a press conference he gave, during which he presented the plans of his government for the gradual lifting of the restrictive measures that had been taken to stop the epidemic of the new coronavirus.

All shops in the malls will be allowed to reopen from 4 May, while on 8 May hotels will be allowed to reopen to 50% of their capacity and from 15 May restaurants and bars will be allowed to serve food and drinks abroad. places, he clarified.

By the end of May, all children will be able to return to school and restaurants will be able to serve food indoors.

It may also not be necessary to use protective masks outdoors from May 15, if the safety distances are observed, said today the Minister of Health Adam Nidzilski.

This measure, he added, however, will only apply if the number of new coronavirus cases is less than 15 per 100,000 people.

The Minister of Health had also announced earlier that next week the children who go to the first three grades of Primary School are expected to return to their schools, as the number of cases of the new coronavirus is decreasing in this country of 38 million inhabitants.

“I think that from next Tuesday, May 4, the children who go to the first three grades of primary school will return to school. “We have only one question – which we will resolve soon – whether this will be done at the national level or whether some areas will have hybrid teaching,” Ninjilsky told private radio station RMF24.

Poland enacted nationally restrictive measures in mid-March, closing theaters, shopping malls, hotels and cinemas, with even stricter restrictions coming into force later that month, with the closure of kindergartens and hairdressers.

The country has recorded 2,776,927 cases of the new coronavirus and 66,533 deaths from COVID-19.

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