BRUSSELS – Poland’s President Andrzej Duda tested positive for Covid-19 and will go to quarantine, his spokesman said Saturday, adding to the list of world leaders who have inflamed as cases of relentless coronavirus in several of the world’s hot spots.
“The president feels good,” spokesman Blazej Spychalski said of Duda. The head of the presidential workplace said he will “probably draw up a list of the president’s contacts,” adding that it is “a new situation. “
The country’s de facto leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, also walked away this week after learning that he had been in contact with a user inflamed by the virus. A government spokesman said Kaczynski, the 71-year-old leader of the ruling law and Justice Party, “feels and will continue to bring out his duties from home. “
Poland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria are experiencing one of the most serious outbreaks in Europe. This moment of the wave of infection led the Polish government to impose new restrictions on public life since Saturday and turn the country’s national stadium in Warsaw into a transitional cash hospital with capacity for 500 coronavirus patients.
Duda saw the stadium on Friday and met with the managers, an assembly that has now generated fears that the structure will have to stop, and he also met Iga Swiatek, who this month has become the first Polish tennis player to win the French Open.
Although Duda wore a mask and gloves on his scale in the stadium, Kaczynski did not wear a mask when he presented an award in a rite last week, and soon got rid of his mask while taking the oath of office as deputy prime minister on October 6.
Other world leaders who have contracted the virus have taken occasional approaches to masking or resisting them. President Trump, who around the pandemic has largely avoided the use of masks and social esttachment practices, got rid of his mask during a public appearance this month when he became ill with the virus.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who boasted in March of shaking hands with “everyone” on his way to a hospital treating coronavirus patients, took a darker technique after being hospitalized with the virus himself. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro continued the merits of the lockout. measures even after contracting a mild case of the virus.
In Poland, which has largely moved away from the first wave of the pandemic by applying an early closure in March, almost a third of its 215,000 total estimated cases arose last week. The country, which Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki referred to as a “red zone” at a press conference on Friday, also recorded more than 4,000 deaths from the virus.
There are fears about how the insufficiently funded Polish health care formula will address the growing number of patients inflamed by the virus. .
At the press conference, Mr Morawiecki also announced new restrictions that entered here on Saturday.
The government ordered the closure of all cafes, bars and restaurants, with the exception of takeaways, and gyms and swimming pools were also closed. Residents should wear outdoor masks from their homes and remote schooling will be a norm for older youth. elementary schools, as well as the best schools and universities.
Young people up to the age of 16 cannot go outdoors from 8 am to 4 pm without adult supervision under the new measures, and socialization in teams of more than five people is prohibited. the age of 70 to stay home.
“We’re from the comfort zone,” Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said at the press conference.
Monika Pronczuk reported from Brussels and Tess Felder from London. Anatol Magdziarz contributed to the Warsaw report.
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