Religious services and a wide range of other events are being held across Poland to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Karol Wojtyła, better known as Pope John Paul II.
From Monday, Poland will go into the next phase of loosening its coronavirus restrictions in the latest stage of easing the lockdown, with pubs, restaurants and hairdressers reopening after a break of two months.
A professor at the university of Toruń in north-central Poland, which is carrying out the trials, said the research was focusing on heart drugs that could help in the early stages of the illness caused by the coronavirus.
„Our message is that we will have a tourist season this summer, even if it is with security measures and restrictions.” Those were the words of European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni yesterday, as the EU revealed a set of guidelines for member states gradually lifting international travel restrictions.
Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the death of General Władysław Anders, the celebrated Polish military general who led some 120,000 Poles out of Soviet forced labor camps, through Iran and Iraq to Palestine, and onward to Europe to fight the Nazis.
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has announced an end to some of his nation’s coronavirus lockdown measures. In a televised address late on Sunday, Mr Johnson revealed the UK would be reopening some public spaces and lifting limits on exercise and outdoor time.
For the first time since 1989, Poland’s presidential elections, which had been due to take place yesterday amidst the coronavirus epidemic, will now be held at a later date.
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