Prognosis
Eastern Europe Tilts Toward More Curbs as Virus Cases Surge
- Poland, Czechs signal more restrictions as early as this week
- Leaders across eastern Europe test positive for Covid-19
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The Czech Republic and Poland signaled that more restrictions may be near as they struggle to fight off the coronavirus pandemic that’s overwhelming the European Union’s east.
Czech authorities, who already shut down schools, restaurants and most shops and services after becoming the EU’s worst Covid-19 hotspot, will probably impose additional social-distancing rules, Prime Minister Andrej Babis told newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes in an interview published Monday.