British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced yesterday that as of July 4, pubs, restaurants, hotels, cinemas, museums, and hairdressers would be allowed to re-open as coronavirus lockdown restrictions ease across the UK.
The announcement comes on the heels of new data showing a decline in the rate of new infections, with the UK’s Ministry of Health on Tuesday reporting its lowest number of new confirmed cases since March 23.
Source: PAP, Reuters
Despite the return of international flights and rail service, a recent study has found that most Poles plan to vacation domestically this summer due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Accordion to a survey conducted several weeks ago by polling agency CBOS, more than 80 percent of those planning a summer trip away from home said they intended to vacation domestically.
As of Tuesday evening, a total of 32,527 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Poland, with 1,375 deaths resulting from the COVID-19 respiratory disease, according to officials from the Ministry of Health.
While Poland has not seen a significant spike in new infections as in the United States, the rate of infection is not declining either, spurring officials to encourage Poles to remain vigilant about social distancing and wearing masks in confined spaces like shops and businesses.
Source: Radio Poland
Among those now observing strict social distancing is Polish ski-jumping legend Adam Małysz, who announced on Monday that he had been positively diagnosed with COVID-19.
In a post on social media, Małysz wrote that „the disease is running its course without symptoms for now.” The 42-year-old Olympian remains one of Poland’s most popular sports personalities.
As a result of Małysz’s positive diagnosis, members of the Polish ski jumping team, who are currently training in Wisła, will also be tested today for the presence of coronavirus.
Source: Radio Poland, PAP
Dozens of mourners turned out yesterday to bid a final farewell to well-known Polish actor Emil Karewicz, who passed away March 18 in Warsaw at the age of 97. The funeral had previously been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Karewicz was born in 1923 in Vilnius, then part of Poland, and later served as a soldier in the Polish Second Army during World War II. After the war, he rose to fame as a film and television actor.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Gestapo officer SS-Obersturmführer in the 1970s cult classic “How I Unleashed World War II,” in which he notably struggles with documenting the interrogation of Polish prisoner “Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.”
After appearing in some 150 films, Karewicz was posthumously awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, one of Poland’s highest state orders, for outstanding services to Polish culture.
Source: Radio Poland
Following a similar recall at Biedronka last week, the Polish state sanitary inspector (GIS) recently announced a recall of a popular cheese available from Lidl after a dangerous bacterium was detected in some test samples.
Customers who purchased “Ser Koryciński Swojski Natural” produced by the company Zarzeccy with a production date of 01/06/2020 and an expiration date of 01/07/2020 should discard the potentially contaminated cheese or return it to where it was purchased.
Ingestion of the contaminated cheese can lead to a disease called listeriosis and range of systems including joint pain, headache, fever, and assorted gastrointestinal symptoms.
For additional information on the recall (in Polish), check here.
Source: Radio Gdańsk
Weather
Wednesday will be partly cloudy and warm with a slight breeze coming from the north and little chance of rain. Temperatures will peak around a high of 22°C, or 71°F, dropping to a low of 15°C or 59°F overnight. Warmer weather is expected over the next two days, with Friday set to be a scorching 27 degrees, followed by rain and cooler temps over the weekend.
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