There were many questions about how we look compared to Europe, so I would like to say that we look good, ladies and gentlemen, said President Andrzej Duda after the Cabinet Council meeting. Coronavirus outbreaks mainly occur in workplaces and at weddings, he said. He appealed to “be reasonable: not to be taken lightly”, but at the same time “not to go overboard, to panic”.
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– Well, there is a pandemic and we are all well aware of it, but – which I want to emphasize very strongly and for which I thanked your ministers – in this very difficult situation, thanks to very hard work, many wise decisions, rational decisions we are doing quite well – said President Andrzej Duda.
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He said so far just over 69,000 people in Poland have fallen ill with the coronavirus (in fact, according to Friday’s data from the Ministry of Health, 69,820 infections have been confirmed). – 2,092 people died (according to Friday’s data from the Ministry of Health, the number of deaths reached 2,100 on Friday – ed.). At the same time, I would like to emphasize with all my strength that during the whole time, when the pandemic is in Poland, not a single child died. This is very important information, especially in the context that the school year has started – assessed the president.
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Coronavirus in Poland
The president pointed out that the COVID-19 epidemic in Poland is of a focal nature. – It appears in two mainly places, in workplaces and at weddings, so many people, unfortunately, become infected as a result of attendance at weddings and family gatherings. Therefore, we kindly ask you to be cautious in this regard and, above all, try to keep your distance, use masks, he appealed.
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– I would ask you to approach it wisely: not to be taken lightly, but at the same time rationally and calmly, not to exaggerate, to panic – added the president.
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Poland against the backdrop of Europe
– There were many questions about how we look compared to Europe, so I want to say that we look good, ladies and gentlemen. There are many times less, for example, in Poland recently, the number of cases in Poland varies between 500 and 700, we have not exceeded 1000 cases a day. When it comes to the European average, we are currently in 16th place in terms of the number of cases per day – said the president. – It’s safe to say that we are in control of the situation. I would like to thank you very much, because to a large extent it is also related to the fact that it is the state, fellow countrymen, that observe the rules that have been announced and are being implemented. Thank you very much for this, because thanks to this we are able to keep this pandemic in some control and the number of cases does not increase excessively – said Duda. He assured that “there is full protection of such people who will fall ill.” As he said, there is absolutely no question of a lack of means of protection or respirators, life-saving measures. He emphasized that there are currently over a thousand respirators available in Poland, 83 are in use. – Here the situation is absolutely safe, there are plenty of beds in hospitals – stressed the president.
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“Two important reasons” for the appointment of the Council
The Cabinet Council began on Friday after 11.00 a.m. As announced, it was supposed to present a report on the actions taken so far to fight the COVID-19 epidemic and a modified strategy for the fall and winter season.
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The Cabinet Council is formed by the government headed by President Andrzej Duda. The positions presented during the Cabinet Council meeting are not legally binding, the Council is convened when the president considers a given problem to be “a matter of particular importance”.
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The president, opening the meeting of the Council, said that he had decided to convene it because of “two important reasons”. He said that we have been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic for several months and reminded that in recent days there has been a change in the position of the Minister of Health – Łukasz Szumowski was replaced by Adam Niedzielski.
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Niedzielski presented on Thursday “a strategy to deal with the fall pandemic“.
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Nearly 70,000 cases of infections have been confirmed in Poland
Previously, the Cabinet Council was convened in mid-March also regarding the COVID-19 epidemic. The president and ministers discussed the aid package for entrepreneurs and the economy prepared by the government in connection with the negative effects of the epidemic. The Ministry of Health said on Friday that laboratory tests had confirmed coronavirus infection in another 691 peopleagainst 612 on Thursday. The ministry also said that another 8 patients died. In total, the presence of coronavirus has been confirmed in more than 69,000 people since the beginning of the epidemic, of whom 2,100 have died.
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