WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland will open a hospital box in Warsaw’s historic national stadium and ask the army to manage coronavirus driving services amid an outbreak of new infections that threatens to overwhelm the fitness system.
Officials said the Law and Justice (PiS) government in conversations with personal medical services to provide beds and rooms for coronavirus patients and planned to double the fundamental wages of state fitness workers.
Other primary cities are also rushing to create new hospitals, the fitness ministry said, after new cases reached nearly 10,000 last week. On Monday, 7,482 cases were reported, following a drop in the tests over the weekend.
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said new infections could reach 20,000 per day in the coming days if social distance and other restrictions are not widely met.
“Of course, we are also preparing . . . for the worst-case scenario, such as 15,000 or even 20,000 new infections (per day),” Niedzielski said at a press conference.
The government has already suggested that citizens stay home, ordered the closure of gyms and swimming pools, restaurants at opening times, and universities and colleges to move to remote classrooms.
Despite the new measures, Niedzielski said the government did not have to introduce any more restrictions for others to visit the tombs of the circle of family and friends on November 1, when millions of Poles do not forget the ones who enjoyed All Saints’ Day.
The PiS government first controlled to involve the first wave of the pandemic in the spring, however, it was criticized through opposition and doctors for not preparing the country for the wave of the moment.
A vote conducted through IBRIS for the Wirtualna Polska news portal showed that, for the conservative nationalist, the PiS fell from 5. 5 percent to 36. 1%, while for the largest centrist opposition organization it did so from 6 percent to 28. 2 percent.
(Report via Agnieszka Barteczko, Pawel Florkiewicz, Anna Koper, Alicja Ptak and Alan Charlish; written through Justyna Pawlak and Marcin Goclowski; editing through Himani Sarkar, Giles Elgood and Mark Heinrich)
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