Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.
The epidemic state of emergency in Poland will end on July 1 owing to the fall in Covid cases, according to draft government legislation.
Adam Niedzielski, the Polish health minister, has called on the shareholders of the US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer to amend its contract with the EU for Covid-19 vaccines as Europe no longer needs so many.
Poland will open the possibility to take the fifth dose of a coronavirus vaccine from mid-April, the health minister has announced.
Poland's health minister wrote on social media on Wednesday that although there were fewer cases of Covid-19, there were still many cases of the flu and, as such, it cannot be said that the state of epidemic threat is over.
Poles will have to wear masks in hospitals, clinics and pharmacies until the end of April owing to epidemic restrictions, according to a draft government regulation.
Poland’s economy is doing “surprisingly well” despite the negative effects of the Covid pandemic and the Ukraine war, the head on an industry lobby has said.
Covid infections are expected to peak at the turn of February and March, with a possible daily infection rate of around 5,000, a deputy health minister said on TV on Thursday.
The new Omicron variant, known officially as XBB.1.5 or by its subvariant nickname, Kraken, is highly contagious but does not appear to pose a greater threat than the original Omicron, the spokesperson for Poland’s health ministry has said.
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