The owners of Pergamin Old Town Apartments, located in the center of Krakow at ul. St. Gertrude, announced an unusual action. Rooms in this luxurious facility will be made available for only 1 PLN per day to the homeless people.
“Due to the impossibility of hotel operations due to the pandemic, having free rooms, we announce a charity campaign:” Roof over your head for PLN 1 “. The campaign will consist of the fact that in the period until November 15, 2020, we will accept applications from people interested in staying in the winter period from December 2020 to March 2021 at our facility at ul. St. Gertrudy 10 in Krakow, however, it is addressed only to the homeless and needy, however, we reserve that we will verify the above and reserve the right to freely choose the people to whom the rooms will be made available, as well as the right to cancel the action at any time. Rooms will be made available for PLN 1 per month. The condition will also be appropriate behavior in the facility – weekly verification, people who do not comply with the regulations will lose the right to stay “
“If you know such people, please send us information along with consent to the processing of personal data in order to implement the campaign and documents that will enable us to verify. We will inform you about whom we have chosen by 20/11/2020. We must help each other in these difficult times and we want to have places available help those who need it the most! Share? Do you have any people in need? Give, give “- add the initiators of the campaign in the entry that appeared on the Facebook profile of Premium Hotels Pergamin.
The University Hospital in Krakow lacks places for patients with Coronavirus. According to the director of the facility, therefore, we should think about creating temporary hospital rooms in such facilities as, for example, Tauron Arena.
Numbers growing – where will the patients be hosted?!
The number of coronavirus patients is growing drastically every day – new records are broken in the number of new infections and deaths due to COVID-19. A few days ago, representatives of the University Hospital in Krakow informed that there are no more places in their facility for those infected with the dangerous virus. The director of the hospital, Marcin Jędrychowski, even suggested thinking about creating temporary hospital rooms in such facilities as, for example, Tauron Arena.
“If it were up to me, I would think about which school in Krakow or the amphitheater hall in Krakow, or possibly even in the Tauron Arena, we should prepare potential beds for potential patients at this point. And we are still taking steps to create a certain number of beds within the existing hospitals” – said Jędrychowski on TVN24. He emphasized that hospital beds for COVID-19 patients are filling up “before they are even built”.
More beds needed!
Meanwhile, the government recently announced an increase in the number of available beds by a further several thousand. “The number of beds occupied by COVID-19 patients is 4138, which is over 4,000. The number of beds available today is over 9 thousand, 9.5 thousand. We are currently carrying out activities that will cause the number of available beds to increase by several thousand in the next few days”, said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday, October 8.
The full article, in the Polish language, can be found here, inside the Gazeta Krakowska.
From Saturday (TODAY!), Krakow and all counties across Poland will be in the yellow zone. This means that the order to cover the mouth and nose will apply to the entire public space.
“From Saturday, the yellow zone will be extended to the entire country. We are obligated to cover our mouth and nose in public spaces, buses, and trams. Already today, we would have about 100 poviats in the yellow zone, i.e. a third of the country, hence such a decision” – Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced at a joint conference with the Minister of Health.
From today, throughout the country, the maximum number of guests at special events is 75 people, and in restaurants – 1 person per 4 sqm.The participation of viewers in cultural events cannot exceed 25%. available places.
The announcement was made Thursday – record increase by 30%
“Thursday (08.10.2020) we had a record increase in infections (4280 – ed.), by 30 % more than the day before. In the case of such dynamics, the doubling of infections will occur every 3 days, which is a very large number and we want it to be limited and flatten out. We want to apply a similar strategy to the one from a few months ago”, announced Prime Minister Morawiecki.
The number of occupied beds for patients with Covid-19 on Thursday was 4138. The total number of beds is 9.5 thousand. “We are conducting activities to increase the number of beds by another several thousand. However, we have free beds at the level of nearly 60 percent, so the situation for patients is safe, but we want to increase the number of available beds throughout the country” – added Mateusz Morawiecki.
“A few months have passed since the introduction of the first restrictions that helped in the fight against the first wave of the pandemic. Now we have the second wave, we have to face it categorically and use the experience so far. We cannot waste these experiences by treating health issues gently”, said the Prime Minister.
Małopolska breaks the records!
Małopolska is breaking the record in the daily number of new cases of coronavirus infections overnight. On Tuesday, October 6, the positive result for COVID-19 was confirmed in 273 people, on Wednesday, October 7, it was already 360 people, and on Thursday, October 8, the number exceeded half a thousand. This is another 552 people, including 28 children and 524 adults, most of which is in Krakow – 166 people.
Once a week, the Ministry of Health publishes the current list of poviats and cities that have been qualified to the yellow or red zones. Which of the poviats will go to a given zone is determined by the number of cases in the last 14 days per 10,000. residents.
Masks on!
According to the new rules introduced in both the yellow and red zones, the requirement to cover the mouth and nose will be in force from Saturday 10 October . People without a mask will have to document their choice with a medical certificate this time. From that day on, new restrictions will apply to gastronomic establishments that will close their activities in the red zone at 22.
The police announce a ” zero tolerance ” policy . If someone does not wear a mask when required to do so, they will need to provide a medical certificate stating that they cannot do so for health reasons. If there is no certificate, the police will be able to issue a ticket or take the case to court or instruct the person.
A ban on events
The Minister of Health also announced a ban on making premises available for events. The limits of people at weddings and other special events will also change.
“In the yellow zone we are reducing the number of participants in events from 100 to 75, and in the red zone it remains unchanged, so 50 participants” – informed Adam Niedzielski.
The plans of the Ministry of Health also include informing residents about the introduction of specific zones through the alert system of the Government Center for Security.
A year under COVID 19 – Coronavirus, what have you done?
Over the month of October, residents can bring souvenirs from the pandemic period to the Krakow Museum, which will be included in an exhibition presenting the year of life of the city and its inhabitants during the pandemic. The people of Krakow can also share their stories about the lockdown and pandemic. The exhibition consisting of souvenirs will be presented next spring.
Unprecedented times under Coronavirus
When this spring pandemic locked us in our homes, an unprecedented image of Krakow and its inhabitants were created – empty streets that had so far been teeming with life even at night, ordinary everyday objects that took on new meaning, words of encouragement presented in the city space, with time on the faces “Homemade” masks and helmets appeared on passers-by – today an ordinary item that should be remembered when entering a shop or a tram, which only a few months ago was in the possession of a few.
Documenting the Outbreak of COVID19
The Museum of Krakow wants to document this special period by creating an exhibition of such souvenirs of residents telling about the “pandemic” Krakow.
“Since April, we have been asking you, Cracovians, for all souvenirs and stories documenting the pandemic, which will later be used in the creation of the exhibition! During the lockdown, our branches were closed for 2 months, but now – with your health and safety in mind, we are able to start our campaign to collect items related to the pandemic!” – informs the Museum of Krakow.
Where will the Expo be held?
The exhibition of the collected exhibits – souvenirs will be held in March 2021 in the Hipolit House as a kind of chronicle of the plague. What will we see on it?
“We have a promised diary that a resident of Krakow keeps from the first day of the pandemic. This particular journal is still being written, so it will only come to us. The exhibition will also include notes by Łukasz Orbitowski, which the writer was keeping at that time, and one of the sculptors from Krakow will donate the sculpture” – lists Krzysztof Haczewski from the Krakow Museum. “The director of the Krakow Museum handed over a helmet made of a PET bottle with his own hands, there will be one of the masks that employees prepared during the lockdown for Nursing Home, we have Vistula masks and a record of home training of Wisła and Cracovia players, and even a jacket made for the needs of the pandemic. We are waiting for all items related to this period, bringing the story of a pandemic”.
Collecting time is on!!!
The mementos of the pandemic period will be collected by the Museum of Krakow until October 23, 2020. Bearing in mind the safety of Krakow residents who want to support the museum with “pandemic” items, in order to deliver them, please contact the museum by e-mail in advance (artefakty@muzeumkrakowa.pl) to arrange a convenient the date for their submission.
In addition to material traces of the pandemic period, the Museum of Krakow also collects stories from Krakow residents about this special period. They should be sent by e-mail to m.zdeb@muzeumkrakowa.pl
Click here to read the Polish version from Gazeta Krakowska.
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