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2020-12-17 17:35:22 GMT2020-12-18 01:35:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WARSAW, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) The Polish government announced on Thursday a nationwide lockdown from Dec. 28 to Jan. 17 in an effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shopping malls are to be closed except for shops selling essential items and pharmacies. Hotels, which are already banned from receiving tourists, can no longer host guests on business trips, and the country s skiing resorts will also be obliged to shut down.
The authorities will also enforce a ban on travel between cities from 7 p.m. on Dec. 31 to 6 a.m. on Jan. 1. New Year s Eve celebrations must be held indoors with a maximum of five persons per household. During the school holidays, children below the age of 16 are not allowed to leave their homes without adult supervision.
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On New Year s Eve, the United Kingdom will complete its divorce from the European Union. As for what replaces that crucial trading relationship? Well, who knows? Talks on a new free trade deal are going down to the wire, with new tariffs and customs threatening to disrupt ports in the new year. For more, we turn now to NPR s London correspondent, Frank Langfitt.
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CHANG: Hi. So where exactly do things stand right now in these negotiations?
LANGFITT: Yeah. They re continuing to argue over European access to U.K. fishing grounds and how to ensure that businesses here in the United Kingdom don t get an advantage over their European competitors. But I ve got to say, even if there s an agreement, it s not clear that European leaders will really have time to ratify it before New Year s anyway. And if there is not a deal at all, we re expecting sizeable - big truck backups, delays at the ports.
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