Poland has voiced support for Belarusians in their fight for freedom, with top Polish officials meeting with Belarus oppositionists, and solidarity marches being held in Polish cities.
Public broadcaster Polish Radio is also set to launch a special news service for listeners in neighbouring Belarus, where post-election protests have grown against longtime strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko. The management of Polish Radio says news broadcasts in Belarusian on Polish Radio 1 will help keep listeners beyond Poland’s eastern border informed about what is happening in their country amid limited access to reliable information.
Source – Polskie Radio
Poland supports efforts to provide Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with the best available treatment, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki tweeted on Friday.
In a tweet in English, the prime minister wrote that he was concerned to hear of the alleged poisoning and the apparent refusal to allow him to leave the country for treatment. Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was fighting for his life in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after drinking tea that allies said they think was laced with poison. A doctor on Friday said his condition had improved a little overnight.
Source – Polskie Radio, Al Jazeera
Poland reported a new record daily rise in coronavirus infections on Friday, confirming 903 new cases and 13 deaths, the most since the pandemic hit the country in early March.
Of the new cases confirmed on Friday, 168 were in the southern Silesia coal region, where infections have spiked among miners and their families. The latest deaths in Poland’s coronavirus outbreak are eight men aged 64 to 89 and five women aged 66 to 92, the Polish health ministry said in a tweet.It added that most of these patients had pre-existing medical conditions. Poland currently has one of the lowest death rates from the virus in Europe, with 19 per million, compared to Belgium for example which has a rate of 857 per million.
Source – rte.ie, Warsaw Business Journal
A rare and magnificent amber chess set from the 1600s has been returned tp Gdańsk after being bought by the Gdańsk museum.
The stunning set would likely have been made by a local craftsman in around 1690 and would have been sold as a highly valuable and valued ornament. It is only one of four such works of art in the world and had been sitting in an attic in a scottish castle before being bought by the musuem for an eye watering 2.4 million złoty. The Baltic coast is well known as a source of amber and Gdańsk boasts a healthy market in the production and selling of amber jewellery and ornaments.
Sources – TheFirtsNews.com
Weather
The current spell of glorious sunny weather will break today as thundery showers appear across Pomerania into the afternoon and evening. Temperatures will reach 26 degrees centigrade (79 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day, dropping to 14 degrees centigrade overnight. Saturday wil be a cloudy day with sunny intervals throughout the day and temperatures reaching 24 degrees centigrade during the day and 12 degrees overnight.
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