Government further tightens measures against coronavirus

Health Minister Roman Prymula has unveiled details of the government’s plan to curb the alarming spread of coronavirus infection in the country. Over the next two weeks the government has ordered a lockdown on mass cultural and sports events.

Theatres and cinemas will be closed for the duration of a fortnight; gyms, fitness centres and swimming pools must close their doors by midnight Friday. Indoor sports halls will be closed. No more than ten people can meet for indoor events, twenty outdoors.

Restaurants, pubs and bars will have to close at 8pm and can only seat four at one table. Although fast foods in shopping malls will remain open there can only be two people at a table.

Primary schools will remain open, secondary schools will alternate classroom and distance learning by the week, with students divided into two groups. Universities will continue online.

Employers have been asked to introduce home office wherever possible.

The tighter measures will be revised in a fortnights’ time.