Ministry of Health announces lockdown after the holidays
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The fourth wave of the pandemic, this time triggered by the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus Delta mutation, will bring another lockdown. We can expect the first changes to the regulations soon after the holiday ends. The farther into the fall, the harsher it will be.
The only way to contain and overcome the threat is through mass vaccination. Meanwhile, the Covid-19 vaccine has been accepted by only about 50 percent of eligible adult Poles. This is definitely not enough to talk about herd immunity and getting rid of the problem.
So politicians already know that introducing further restrictions and bans is the only way to limit the transmission of the coronavirus. On Monday, a meeting of the Medical Council was chaired by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. On the same day, the spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Wojciech Andrusiewicz, presented a preliminary action plan for the fall.
"We can be sure that some restrictions will emerge," he announced.
In the first place, restrictions will be introduced where the fewest vaccinations have been made, so most people are at risk of becoming infected.
This means that the first to see restrictions and bans will be the inhabitants of Podkarpacie, where less than 40 percent of the inhabitants have been vaccinated. People from Podlasie, Warmian-Masurian, Lubelskie, Opolskie and Świętokrzyskie voivodships will also suffer with them. The first restrictions are to appear when the daily number of SARS-COV-2 coronavirus infections exceeds 1,000 cases.
