‘We must keep our social distance in the streets’: PM
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“We must keep our social distance on the streets; there will be restrictions on access to parks, boulevards, places of recreation,” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki informed after Tuesday's meeting of the Government Crisis Management Team.
He added that the government wants to flatten the infection growth curve so that there is no situation like in Italy or Spain, segregation of patients, selection of those who can still be treated with a respirator or not.
Morawiecki announced the need to introduce further restrictions if we want social and economic life to return to normal in a few months.
“There is too much contact between people all the time, there are too many walks, too many people stayed on the boulevards, beaches, in different places,” he pointed out.
The most important rule is the rule of social distance, it is two meters from the other person, except when mom or dad looks after the child on a walk, or look after a person with disabilities. People under 18 will be allowed to stay in public space only with an adult.
Parks, beaches, squares and other public areas are to close. Essential workers must wear gloves and use workstations at least 1.5m apart.
The new measures also mean supermarkets will only be allowed to let in three customers at a time for each checkout it operates.
(PAP)
