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Special restrictions for travellers from China unjustified - minister

Health Minister Adam Niedzielski told a press conference on Thursday that his ministry had two reasons for not introducing special restrictions. Andrzej Lange/PAP

Poland will not impose special Covid restrictions on people travelling from China, with the health minister saying there was no justification for their introduction.

Current coronavirus wave slowing down in Poland

Poland has started to see a slowdown in the current coronavirus wave, a deputy health minister said on Monday.

Half million refugees from Ukraine facing mental health issues says WHO

About 500,000 refugees who have fled to Poland to escape the Russian invasion of Ukraine need support for mental health disorders, and 30,000 have serious mental health problems, the World Health Organisation representative in Poland has said.

Virus-battling scientist named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2021

Dr. Lidia Morawska was listed in the ‘innovators’ section of Time’s list for “recognizing the importance of aerosol transmission and marshalling the data that would convince the World Health Organization and other authoritative bodies to do the same.”

Doc comes up with ground-breaking method for diagnosing diabetes via a patient’s breath

With the new method, the patient could be asked to simply exhale and will know the result in under a minute.

Number of deaths in 2020 highest in last several decades

The number of deaths in 2020 exceeded the average annual level from the last 50 years by over 100,000 while the death rate per 100,000 people reached the highest level since 1951, Poland's statistical office has said.

‘Futuristic children’s playground’ is first in the world to use air-purifying algae

The interactive playground at Warsaw’s Copernicus Science Centre is stimulated by children playing which sets off the bioreactors and directly contributes to air purification.

Łódź pandemic initiative for elderly praised as ‘a model for the future’ by World Health Organisation

The city’s successful volunteer scheme to help older people affected by the pandemic has now been featured by the World Health Organization as a case study and future model of civic action for other world cities to follow.

Polish docs jet into Italy to relieve exhausted COVID-19 medical staff

The 15-strong team from the Polish Centre for International Aid and the Military Institute of Medicine will fly to the northern region of Lombardy where deaths on Sunday had risen to 6,360 - and increase of 416 in just one day. 

Polish students hospitalised as authorities rush to contain China’s deadly virus which has killed 80 and continues to spread

On Saturday, Polish students from the University of Rzeszow who returned from the infected city of Wuhan following an exchange programme were taken to Warsaw's Hospital for Infectious Diseases to be kept under observation for symptoms of the virus

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Poland sparks Russian anger as it begins changing Kaliningrad road signs to Królewiec

Posting on Twitter, the Ministry of Infrastructure said: “The first signs are already leading to Królewiec. We have just started replacing the boards so that they have Polish name Królewiec, not Kaliningrad.

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The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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