Warsaw: Poland on Wednesday introduced new restrictions on the number of people permitted in restaurants, hotels and theaters because Covid’s deaths reached the highest level since April.
New limits of 30 percent of the maximum capacity does not apply to people who have been vaccinated, placing responsibility to check vaccination status to business owners.
Legislation that allows employers to verify whether employees have been vaccinated or have a recent test shows that they do not have Covid-19 also run through parliament.
The Ministry of Health on Wednesday reported the deaths of 669 Covid in Poland in the last 24 hours of the highest level since April.
“The extraordinary majority is a person who is not vaccinated,” said Government spokesman Piotr Muller to Zet Radio private broadcasters.
“The only scientific solution that is known today is to vaccinate and react quickly when you get sick,” he said.
The Ministry of Health said it would also like to introduce mandatory vaccinations for health workers, teachers and the military from March 1 but the cabinet was divided into this problem.
Also from Wednesday, the people who flew to Poland from outside the Schengen area of the free UE trip must have evidence of negative tests taken no earlier than 24 hours before crossing the border.
Among other steps, the school will switch to long distance learning for several days on both sides of the Christmas holiday, which means that children will leave school from December 20 to January 9.
The nightclub must close except for a new year party.
The government of Poland’s right-wing populists has so far been very careful to attend other European countries in embracing mandatory vaccine and vaccination certificates.
Vaccination doubts are still very high in Poland, a country of 38 million people where only around 54 percent of the population is fully vaccinated one of the lowest levels in the EU.
Most of the opposition calls for the government to impose harder restrictions and left parties have presented a proposal for mandatory vaccination for all adults in Poland.
Poland introduced new restrictions to fight a pandemic
