Saturday, November 21, 2020

Covid-19 in Poland: 100 days of solidarity


 "Many of our predictions regarding the coronavirus were wrong, today we all have to demand much more from ourselves, we have 100 days of solidarity ahead of us; at its end it is highly probable that a vaccine will be available"
- Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday.

At a press conference on Saturday, the Prime Minister assured that the government is working intensively on the preparation of vaccine distribution and the vaccination process. - “As soon as a vaccine is available, we will be ready to use it. However, we must make it to that day with as few infections as possible and with as few job losses as possible. This is our national goal,” - he said.

"Currently, the seven-day moving average is over 20,000. Approximately 22-22.5 thousand a day, so the situation is still very, very serious," - he said.

"When the average number of daily cases of illnesses for seven days will be lower than 19,000, we expect a return to restrictions from the red zone; with a level below 10,000 - yellow; and 4 thousand. - green" - said the Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski.

"If the epidemic situation worsens, if we exceed the average number of cases of 27,000, a national quarantine will be introduced" - he pointed out.