Covid-19: Poland heads for new restrictions
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A bakery, in Warsaw, Poland, on November 26, 2021 as the country faces a new outbreak of coronavirus.
AP - Czarek Sokolowski
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Poland is suffering the full brunt of a wave of Covid-19.
As of Tuesday, December 7, the country recorded nearly 20,000 new positive cases and 500 deaths.
The government has announced new restrictions: restrictions in restaurants, hotels, transport ... Vaccination could soon be made compulsory for certain trades.
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With our correspondent in Warsaw,
Damien Simonart
From March 1, 2022, doctors, teachers and civil servants in uniform may be required to get vaccinated in Poland.
The Ministry of Health announces "
a close consensus
" within the power.
Piotr, 49, employed in the private sector, hoped for stricter measures.
“
There are many vaccines that are already compulsory and no one is protesting,”
he defends.
Thanks to this, we are resisting diseases that have decimated us in the past.
I think vaccination should be compulsory for everyone.
Myself, I have been vaccinated twice and I am waiting for my third dose.
"
The government wants to tighten the screws by the end of the year.
Closed nightclubs, hotels, restaurants and churches limited to 30% of their capacity excluding vaccinated people, and return to distance education at least until January 9.
A situation that displeases Monika, mother of three children, two of whom attend school.
“
Of course I'm worried about my children, but I'm also worried that this new confinement will have a negative impact on them,
” she explains.
For the moment, we are talking about a two-week closure, but it may be longer and who knows if we will not be locked up again for two months at home.
"
Like many parents, Monika put her two eldest daughters, 8 and 5, on the waiting list to receive the first dose of the vaccine as soon as possible.
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