One person has died and around 20 were injured after a city bus crashed through a barrier and fell off an overpass in Warsaw yesterday. Six people were taken to hospitals with serious injuries, two of the injured are children. Ten emergency medical teams and a rescue helicopter were deployed to the scene of the accident on the Polish capital’s northern Grota-Roweckiego Bridge. Forty people were aboard at the time of the accident.
After crashing through a safety barrier, the front of the articulated bus landed near a carriageway below, while the rear end remained stuck on the overpass. A spokesman for Warsaw police headquarters said the most probable cause of the accident was the bus driver fainting adding that the driver had been sober.
Source – Polskie Radio
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced at a press conference this week that if there is a second wave of the coronavirus in the autumn, Poland will not introduce the level of lockdown that the country has seen up to now.
He told reporters that “we do not intend to shut the economy down to the extent we have done so far”.
He added that the government was planning to reopen schools for pupils on September 1st, and wanted students to return to universities on October 1st – unless there were “very unexpected events.”
Source – Polskie Radio
US tech giant Google will invest up to 2 billion USD in a data centre in Warsaw to develop cloud computing services, a Polish newspaper has reported.
The Puls Biznesu daily quoted Google Cloud’s business development director in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe as saying that the Warsaw facility would be “the biggest investment in infrastructure of this kind in Poland.”
The data centre, called Region Google Cloud, is expected to be operational at the start of next year. The Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Development Minister has estimated Google could invest between 1.5 to 2 billion USD in the project The news came after software giant Microsoft last month announced it would invest 1 billion USD in digital technology in Poland.
Source – Polskie Radio, Puls Biznesu
The Polish national carrier, LOT Polish airlines has announced new flight connections from Gdańsk to Croatia starting in July.
From the 7th July, there will be flights from Gdańsk to Dubrovnik with flights to Zadar and Split also starting at the beginning of July as well.
The company had previously announced the return of flights from Warsaw to Croatia, but this new announcement is for a completely new set of flights, meaning good news for travellers in the Three Cities.
Source – thedubrovniktimes.com
Weather
Friday is going to be a hot and sunny day with temperatures reaching 28 degrees centigrade (82 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day, dropping to a mild 16 degrees centigrade overnight. In saturday will see thundery showers with temperatures reaching 24 degrees centigrade during the day, and 15 degrees overnight.
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