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Poland's vaccination count close to 1.18 mln

Over 200,000 Poles have gone through the full vaccination procedure, having received two doses, Michał Dworczyk said at a press conference as he summed up the first month of the national vaccination programme. Piotr Nowak/PAP

Poland has given out 1.176 million Covid-19 vaccines so far, including 976,000 first-dose shots, the government vaccination commissioner said on Monday.

Mink face cull after Covid-19 found

The Polish health minister has said mink on a farm in north-western Poland will be culled after the SARS-Cov-2 virus was detected.

Older children not to return to school before March - minister

Pupils in Poland's 4th-8th forms and secondary schools will return to regular classes in March at the earliest, the health minister said on Monday.

Government appeals not to politicise vaccination campaign

Representatives of Poland’s main political parties reached agreement on nothing more than the importance of vaccinating as many people as possible during a heated meeting with the prime minister, a senior government official has said.

Poland able to vaccinate some 2.5 mln people during Q1

A maximum of 2.5 to 2.7 million Poles can be vaccinated during the first three months of the year, the health minister said on Thursday.

Retail trade first to be released from Covid-19 restrictions - minister

The Polish health minister has announced that the retail trade sector will likely be the first to be released from the binding coronavirus restrictions, which will probably be lifted after the first quarter of the year.

Poland sets up compensation fund to cover adverse effects of vaccines

The Polish government is preparing a compensation fund that will offer payments to people vaccinated against the coronavirus who suffer a serious negative reaction to the jab, the health minister has announced.

Poland's youngest pupils to return to school on January 18

Children from grades 1 through 3 will return to their schools as of January 18, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announced on Monday.

Hospital faces EUR 55,000 fine for allowing vaccine queue jumping

A centre attached to Warsaw’s Medical University could be hit with a PLN 250,000 (EUR 55,000) fine for vaccinating people outside the first group of people meant to be vaccinated first under a nationwide programme.

Over 14,000 Poles vaccinated - health minister

More than 14,000 Poles have already been vaccinated against Covid-19, the health minister said on Wednesday.

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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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