Poland’s prime minister has offered his sympathies after two workers were killed in a cave-in at a coal mine in the south of the country.
Two other miners were reported injured after the cave-in rocked the Mysłowice-Wesoła mine in Poland’s southern Silesia region on Thursday afternoon. A total of 24 miners were in the danger zone when the incident occurred some 665 metres underground.
The incident is being investigated by mining officials and separately by prosecutors.
Source – Polskie Radio
The Polish government on Friday announced a near-complete regional lockdown would be imposed on the northern Pomerania province from March 13th amid a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Restrictions in the region, which covers the Three Cities, will be imposed on shopping malls, while hotels, theatres, cinemas, museums and swimming pools in the region will have to shut for at least a week. In the rest of the country, other, mostly less-severe curbs designed to limit the spread the virus will remain in place until at least March 28.
The Polish Health Minister told reporters on Friday that the average number of fresh daily infections in Poland had risen by a third week on week and Pomerania is among the regions in Poland with the highest number of new coronavirus cases
Source – Polskie Radio
Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski took the gold in the 1500m at the European Athletics Indoor Championships on home turf on Friday, while his team-mate Michał Haratyk won silver in the shot put.
Polish shot putter Haratyk finished runner-up with a best effort of 21.47m. Czech Tomáš Staněk beat him by 15cm to take the gold.
The 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships kicked off in the north-central Polish city of Toruń on Thursday evening.
Source – Polskie Radio
A team of scientists from the Gdańsk University of Technology and Łódź University of Technology have developed an innovative protein production system based on selected yeast culture. The invention could allow for the effective production of proteins used in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry.
Until now, industry has relied on micro-organisms that need temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius to live. Scientists from Gdańsk and Łódź have created a system based on selected yeasts adapted to growth at low temperatures, which opens the way to the effective production of proteins which are damaged by higher temperatures.
Source – trojmiasto.pl
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