Restrictions for New Year’s Eve 2021. The Ministry does not rule out introducing new restrictions

Last year’s restrictions thwarted many people. Restricting the functioning of hotels made New Year’s travel impossible, and the so-called national quarantine, prohibiting movement until 6 the next day.
Can we also expect similar solutions this year?

The new restrictions are still in force since December 15. Some of them concern not only the unvaccinated

The new variant of the omicron coronavirus made the Ministry of Health decide to introduce new restrictions in order to stop the development of the next wave of the pandemic. include:

  • 75 percent occupancy in public transport,
  • 30 percent occupancy by unvaccinated persons in restaurants, bars and hotels, cinemas, theaters, sports and religious facilities. Increasing the limit possible after verifying the vaccinated persons,
  • closing clubs, discos and dancing places,
  • mandatory tests for coronavirus – mandatory tests also for those vaccinated when they live with an infected person and 24 hours before arrival to Poland from a country outside the Schengen area.

The restrictions for New Year’s Eve 2021 are eased at the moment

However, an exception to the closing of the dancing places was made on New Year’s Eve. As announced by the Ministry of Health, clubs and discos will be able to be open. Fun in these places will have to take place in the sanitary regime, and up to 100 people will be able to take part in them. The organization of outdoor events is also possible.

The ministry does not rule out that there will be new restrictions. New Year’s Eve may look like a year ago?

On Thursday, December 23, the spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Wojciech Andrusiewicz, was a guest of Radio Plus. When asked about the new restrictions on December 31, Andrusiewicz that at this moment the New Year’s Eve in these epidemic restrictions will be possible, but it is possible that this situation may change:

If we can see that there are more and more omicron cases, at the same time we are going to notice that there may be more and more occupied hospital beds, then quick decisions will have to be made.

Source: Gazeta

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