Polish officials were on Thursday trying to persuade the Belarusian authorities to allow in a convoy with food for workers on strike in Minsk.
The food was sent by Poland’s Solidarity trade union to help Belarusian workers protesting at Alexander Lukashenko’s claim to a sixth term as president in an election widely dismissed as rigged. But the convoy carrying 18 tonnes of aid has been stopped at the Belarusian border, according to Polish officials.
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński said the foreign ministry in Warsaw was „intervening” with the Belarusian authorities. He added that the convoy sent by the Solidarity union was not „political”. Solidarity boss Piotr Duda said earlier this week that Belarusians today needed support in the same way that Poles did 40 years ago.
Source – Polskie Radio
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday his government had urged Russia ditch any plans for a military intervention in Belarus.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Lukashenko had asked him to set up a reserve police force, but promised not to use it unless the crisis got out of control, the Interfax news agency reported. Polish state news agency PAP reported that in a television interview Putin said he had agreed to Lukashenko’s request.
A series of massive demonstrations have swept Belarus this month to protest strongman Alexander Lukashenko’s claim to a sixth term as president in an election widely dismissed as rigged.
Source – Polskie Radio
The construction of a new planned mega-airport in central Poland will create 95,000 jobs, the Deputy Infrastructure Minister has said, adding that building the new facility would bring 126 billion Polish zloty in gross added value to the Polish economy.
The new facility is to be built between the Polish capital, Warsaw, and the central city of Łódź, and aims to integrate air, rail and road transport. It is scheduled to be constructed by the end of 2027. President Andrzej Duda said earlier this week that a host of big-ticket projects undertaken by Poland’s government were helping steer the country through the global coronavirus crisis.
Source – Polskie Radio
Researchers from Gdańsk and Kraków are working together to create an effective and safe vaccine against COVID-19. It works by stimulating special white blood cells of the vaccinated person to destroy cells infected by the virus.
The work is being jointly carried out by researchers from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk , which specializes in the study of the human immune system and from the Małopolska Center of Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, including an expert in nano-biotechnology.
The team hopes to be able to improve the functionality of so called T cells and their ability to eliminate the virus. This could contribute to the development of a unique approach to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Sources – trójmiasto.pl
Weather
Today will be a mixed bag of sunshine and cloud with the risk of the odd shower throughout the day. Temperatures will reach 19 degrees centigrade (66 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day, dropping to 12 degrees centigrade overnight. Saturday will start rainy with the rain clearing into the afternoon and temperatures reaching 20 degrees centigrade during the day and 12 degrees overnight.
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