Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.)

Claudia-Yvette Matthes, Radoslaw Markowski

Poland Report

Sustainable Governance in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis

Format Type
PDF
Date of publication
10/12/2021
DOI
10.11586/2021102
Edition
1. edition
Volume/Format
45 pages, PDF

Price

Free of charge

Description

When COVID-19 infections began spreading first in China and then in Italy, the PiS government downplayed the threat of a pandemic. Once the pandemic hit Poland, however, the government responded very quickly. Already two days before the first confirmed case of a COVID-19 infection in Poland, parliament adopted a COVID-19 statute which expanded the government’s decree powers outside a state of emergency. On March 13, one day after the first confirmed COVID-19 related death, the minister of health announced a “state of epidemic threat” which was elevated to a “state of epidemic” just one week later.

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