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After the excesses of parties last weekend, there is another rush of tourists in Poland to the winter sports resort Zakopane.

The trains to Zakopane are full and traffic jams are building up on the road to the winter sports center, the PAP news agency reported on Friday.

"The hotels are fully occupied, which means 50 percent of their places according to the Corona regulation," said a spokeswoman for the local chamber of commerce.

There are also many bookings for the coming week.

A week ago, Poland reopened hotels and ski resorts for a test phase of 14 days.

As a result, there were sprawling parties in Zakopane last weekend.

Wild celebrations in Polish ski resorts

Poland has loosened the corona measures on a trial basis.

In the village of Zakopane, many of the celebrants went crazy.

The police had to intervene.

Source: WORLD

TV recordings showed tightly packed groups of revelers dancing and singing through the Krupowki shopping and entertainment street.

Many did not wear a mask.

The police had to issue more than a hundred fines.

Appeal from the Minister of Health

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Health Minister Adam Niedzielski appealed to citizens on Friday to adhere to the corona restrictions.

The discipline of the population is a decisive factor in the question of the speed at which the pandemic will spread in the coming days and weeks.

Due to the corona pandemic, Poland is now considering stricter entry rules at the borders with the neighboring countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

A decision should be made next week.

For people who could prove their health with a test result, the limits remained open.

In Poland, the number of new corona infections rose again after a temporary decline and last week reached its highest level in more than a month.

Enthusiasm for winter sports: Many Poles went to the mountains to ski

Source: AFP / JANEK SKARZYNSKI

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"Unfortunately, we are seeing that the trend towards increasing numbers of infections is being confirmed," said a ministry spokesman, according to the PAP agency.

He stressed that it depends to a large extent on the citizens' sense of responsibility how the values ​​will develop in the coming days.

In response to the excesses of parties in the ski resorts, Health Minister Niedzielski had already threatened that the government could reverse the easing.