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From March 20, new restrictions will apply throughout Poland for three weeks. Lockdown was announced by the health minister at a press conference. An advocate of such a solution is not dr hab. Tomasz Dzieiątkowski. In his opinion, lockdown should improve the situation in hospitals, while Poles should follow safety rules more. If this topic had not been neglected, it might not be necessary to introduce a lockdown.
- The Minister of Health announced the introduction of a lockdown throughout the country from March 20
- I do not like this. This could probably have been avoided if the Poles had retained greater responsibility – says Dr. Tomasz Dzieiątkowski in an interview with Medonet
- In his opinion, more waves of declines and increases in infections are ahead of us
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Lockdown across the country. On March 17, the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski announced that restrictions would be introduced from March 20 to April 9 throughout Poland. They will stop working, among others hotels, shopping malls, cultural and sports facilities, casinos, saunas and solariums.
Last day there were over 25 thousand. new cases of coronavirus. There are 19 thousand people in hospitals due to COVID-21,5. people. We have a record number of respirators seized – 2, the most since the start of the pandemic.
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The health minister informed that the main reason for the dynamic increase in the number of infected is the spreading British variant of the virus, which now accounts for 52 percent of the population. infections.
Lockdown in Poland. There is a sinusoid of infections ahead of us
The introduction of lockdown is critically assessed by dr hab. of medical sciences Tomasz Dzieiątkowski, a virologist and microbiologist from the Medical University of Warsaw. In an interview with Medonet, he says that this is not a solution in the long run.
— Most likely we will be dealing with a sinusoid of infections. First there will be a lockdown, then the government will loosen it, people will let go, and we will have an increase in infections again. Over and over again. Unfortunately, until we achieve an appropriate vaccination of the population, which will not happen soon in the present conditions, we will have such “fun” at our own request.
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– First of all, vaccinations. But until we reach the appropriate immunization levels, we must rigorously and rigorously apply non-pharmacological methods. This really needs to be strictly adhered to, not to ignore the fact that people walk without properly wearing masks, do not respect distance, or joke that they do not wash their hands.. This is a catechism, these are the basics that everyone should adhere to – emphasizes Dr. Dziecistkowski.
Lockdown is to help the health care system
According to Dzieiąctkowski, in order to reduce the number of cases, discipline, compliance with the rules of the sanitary regime and strict law enforcement are needed more than lockdown.
Lockdown is a short-term solution designed to help channel not so much a limp as a truly dying health system. The idea is not to get too many patients flowing into the system. This would not be needed if all non-pharmacological methods were followed. What is needed is discipline and law enforcement, which has not been enforced since last year – emphasizes the scientist.
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– I am absolutely not an advocate of lockdown, I do not like it and it could have probably been avoided if Poles kept a high level of social responsibility and followed the rules that have been talked about for a long time.
– Due to inconsistent messages, people indulge each other, they do not take this virus seriously, and he uses it at every opportunity. Three weeks of lockdown, there will be a decline in the number of cases, so again, probably the next stage will be loosening. In three weeks there will be Christmas, then there will be a glitch about what to do with a picnic, which for Poles is a certain sanctity, and during which there may be an increased number of infections – the virologist concludes.
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