According to the study, Polish people do not trust authorities, and are worried about their health and savings. They are also convinced that the presidential election will not be legal nor fair.
Staff members at all hospitals have to have temperature checked on a regular basis. The Ministry of Health has also ordered that patients need to be segregated and areas for those suspected of Covid-19 infection have to be created at A&E units.
The coronavirus pandemic exposed how Poland is half-way into its transformation from a democracy into an autocracy.
Top conclusions from Thursday's conference: Social isolation will last longer. High school final exams and eight grade students' exams will be postponed to June. There will be an obligation starting next Thursday (April 16) to cover their mouth and...
When doctors in hospitals around the world fight for the lives of coronavirus-infected patients, street artists are carrying out their projects. They are trying to convince people to stay at home, criticizing politicians who do not always make the...
Up to 40,000 may die of the coronavirus in nursing homes, unless there is a quick state response. A dozen institutions are already quarantined and cut off from the world.
The changes introduced relate to ZUS (Social Insurance Institution) contributions, benefits for the self-employed and people on commission contracts, as well as special benefits for farmers.
The most important questions we ask ourselves about the pandemic.
In addition to administering quarantines and taking care of the heavy paperwork associated with the epidemic, sanitary workers now also have to give out fines to those who break the lockdown restrictions.
Due to the sheer magnitude of the crisis brought about by COVID-19, the solutions adopted to combat it will determine the future of liberal democracy, the economy and European integration.
PiS gave Marshal of Sejm Elżbieta Witek the right to postpone the presidential election to May 17. These changes are unconstitutional. The draft of new regulations was signed by deputies who were at the time not present in Warsaw.
Are we entering a golden era for predatory lenders, payday loans and pawn shops? Queues are forming in front of some of them. - I lost my job. I don't have a penny - says a client.
Jarosław Gowin has just resigned from the office as deputy prime minister and minister of science. He recommended Jadwiga Emilewicz, Minister of Development, in his place. Porozumienie stays in the ruling coalition.
Patients and medical staff at all hospitals will be guaranteed access to coronavirus tests, the National Health Fund announced. In reality, tests are to be administered only to people with COVID-19 symptoms or those who had direct contact with an...
All funds raised by WOŚP will be used to purchase medical equipment for hospitals and personal protective gear for medical staff.
"To hold election on May 10 would be morally irresponsible and legally inacceptable" - the Bioethics Committee at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) appealed to the government to reschedule the upcoming presidential election.
The new "shield" includes a total of 91 articles. One of the provisions exempts businesses hiring up to 50 employees from paying their social security contributions, but... it only applies to 9 employees.
Doctors and nurses are a sixth of over 3,000 people who were tested positive for coronavirus in Poland. They pick it from the sick ones and spread it to other patients and amongst the medical staff. If nothing changes there will be no one left to...
From April 1st, no patient suspected of coronavirus may be examined without prior approval from the sanitary inspectorate. Tests will no longer be provided to every person who had contact with someone infected.
"I will stay in Poland and save my company". Amid uncertainty over health and economic downturn, expats living in Poland are trying to keep their footing.
The last day of March brought an avalanche of layoffs. The situation is likely to get even worse in the upcoming months.
Poland introduced on Wednesday new enforcement measures in its fight against the coronavirus. Exhibiting "poor judgement" by going for a walk could even result in a penalty of up to 90,000 PLN, a criminal law specialist said.
I've been working in the emergency department for the last 30 years. I have been the manager of the rescue team for 12 years. I drive an ambulance with my husband, who is a paramedic. I have seen accidents, deaths, human tragedies. I have never been...
Patients infected with coronavirus are dying without being included in official statistics. Why are some deaths not counted as Covid-19 victims?
- We will be entering a phase of sharp increase in COVID-19 incidence - said the Minister of Health Łukasz Szumowski at a Monday press conference. He also hinted that he considered the current restrictions of movement insufficient.
Today Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Minister of Health Łukasz Szumowski introduced new sanitary restrictions.
The Senate also rejected the amendments to the Electoral Code and modifications the Social Dialogue Council.
- We cannot expect the pandemic to go down the Chinese path without taking equally drastic measures as China did. Expecting otherwise strikes me as magical thinking on our part. But still, I hold on to a glimmer of hope that I will be proven wrong....
Although the decision increases the official number of victims, Italy decided to test deceased patients for Covid-19. In Poland, Sanepid claims that asking for the cause of death is nothing but journalistic sensationalism.
The government ceased to pretend that it has the economy under control. The head of the Polish Fund for Development said that he expects a recession of over 10 per cent followed by a long recovery.
While the governments all around the globe deploy unprecedented measures to tackle the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Polish ruling party appears incapable to even comprehend the enormity of the challenge.
'Allowing the presidential election would be a mere crime. One cannot endanger people's lives and we all must abide this rule', says the open letter penned by Małgorzata Kidawa Błońska, the Civic Coalition runner. In the evening she informed about...
The government claims it's supporting the economy with a package worth PLN 212 bn but fails to mention that it consists of government-backed loans mostly instead of new spending.
- If the epidemic continues to rage on in May, the date of the presidential election will have to be changed - President Andrzej Duda announced on TVP on Saturday evening.
Above all else, I fear the political consequences of this crisis. The previous one, from 2008, led to the flourishing of populism. And that crisis was just a breeze compared to the current one.
Voting-by-mail for all people in quarantine or isolation and for those over 60 years of age - such a provision to the Act amending the Election Code was introduced in the Law and Justice "anti-crisis shield" stimulus bill. This is despite the fact...
"Send some support" - this is the name for the initiative which helps hairdressers, beauty salons' owners or physiotherapists. Together with readers, we can save the companies of those who lost their source of income through the epidemic
In terms of the number of tests performed per million inhabitants, Poland is at the very end. The data is inexorable.
"I have no doubt that there are more victims of the coronavirus than the government statistics say," says a forensic doctor.
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