Poland: new restrictions come into force amid resurgence of Covid-19 cases
Poland is following in the footsteps of other European countries and has decreed partial containment.
Here, a member of healthcare staff gives a document to a Polish man at a Covid-19 testing center outside a Warsaw hospital on October 27, 2020. REUTERS / Kacper Pempel
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The Poles must respect a partial containment which begins this Saturday, November 7, in the face of the contamination records recorded in the country: almost 28,000 new cases and 349 additional deaths in the last 24 hours.
Museums, cinemas and even theaters must close, as well as most stores in shopping centers.
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With our correspondent in Warsaw
,
Sarah Bakaloglou
In front of the now closed doors of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Agnieszka explains his
support for the measures taken by the government.
But for the young Polish girl, this remains insufficient.
“
I would like full containment to be honest because we are in a very difficult position.
What we are doing right now is not enough
, she says.
Sooner or later there will be no more beds in the hospital, and already now, we see that people have to wait five or six hours in queues, in ambulances, before being admitted to the hospital.
It's hard, it's hard.
"
In Poland, reports of a
lack of ventilators and medical personnel
have been increasing for several weeks.
But for Paulina, the concern is financial: for this young saleswoman, the partial confinement worsens an already complicated economic situation.
“
This is really a bad thing.
Because I have a grandmother, and you know if I make money, it's for her.
And at the moment, I only work on weekends, it's very difficult,
”she says indignantly.
The Polish Prime Minister however warned: if
the situation does not improve
in the coming days, a much more severe confinement will be decreed.
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