Covid restrictions tightened in response to new variant | Christmas shoppers in Gdańsk offered walk-up vaccine jabs | Gdynia port cleared of WWII bomb risk | Gdańsk zoo welcomes endangered turtle baby

New restrictions will come into force tomorrow as the Health Ministry responds to the emergence of the Omicron variant of coronavirus.  
The measures include new limits on numbers in restaurants, churches, hotels and cultural premises such as cinemas and theatres.
Occupancy in these places will be limited to 50 percent—and the same will apply to swimming pools. The maximum number of guests at weddings, communions, funerals and other gatherings will be capped at 100. There’s also a ban on flights from seven African countries including South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and extended quarantine of 14 days for travellers arriving from outside the Schengen area.

Travellers can be released with a negative PCR test taken eight days after crossing the border. The new rules will initially be in place until 17 December. 

Health minister Adam Niedzielski said at a press briefing yesterday that Poland is somewhere at the height of the fourth wave of Covid, but that if the situation deteriorates sharply, other changes may be introduced overnight.

Source: radiogdansk.pl


Shoppers at Gdansk’s Christmas market can now get their Covid jabs instantly at a mobile vaccination point in Targ Węglowy.

No registration or appointment is needed for over-18s to get their first, second or third dose at the facility. The point is open midday to 8pm Sunday to Thursday, and midday to 9pm Fridays and Saturdays.

Source: radiogdansk.pl


A World War II artillery shell has been recovered from the port basin in Gdynia.

The historic missile was found near the French Quay and the Emigration Museum, during works to renovate the harbour master’s office. The area was sealed off for a time yesterday as divers from the 13th Minesweeper Squadron of the 8th Coastal Defence Flotilla recovered the object. The projectile was handed to engineers who will detonate it at a military training ground.

Source: radiogdansk.pl


A critically endangered turtle species has hatched a new baby at Gdańsk zoo. The baby Malaysian giant turtle currently weighs just 64 grams—little more than a tennis ball.

Adults of the species can weigh in at up to 50 kilos, with shells up to a metre across. The animals’ native home is in freshwater lakes, marshes and rivers in Indonesia and Malaysia, but there they’re threatened by poaching, and habitat loss due to deforestation, often to make way for the cultivation of palm oil.

Source: radiogdansk.pl


Poles have been marking St Andrew’s Day with traditional Andrzejki parties.

The gatherings centre around fortune telling, done by pouring hot candle wax through a hole in a metal key into water. Traditionally the method was used to help young women identify their future husbands. Nowadays both sexes gather on the eve of the saint’s festival to look into the future.

Source: radiozet.pl


Weather
Temperatures will hover around freezing today in Gdansk, and it will feel as if it’s colder still—around minus 3°C or 26°F. The sky will be mostly cloudy with light winds. Overnight the temperature will rise just a little to give a fractionally warmer day tomorrow, with a high of 4°C, 39°F.
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