- Of course, the basis for formulating these new restrictions is the pandemic situation we are facing, the escalation in the number of infections, but I want to emphasize that we are still maintaining the logic of interventions tailored to the scale of the phenomenon and, above all, interventions that are targeted rather than nationwide. This means that we will primarily react in specific zones and in response to the types of zones we are dealing with. A very important point is that until now, our policy of restrictions has essentially been stable, not anticipating any loosening of measures recently, nor any tightening. Earlier, during the holiday or pre-holiday period, we were dealing with a loosening of the tools we used because we were emerging from a complete or total lockdown - stated Adam Niedzielski at a press conference.

- Today, we are changing our approach. This means that looking at the trajectory of the pandemic's development, we will be tightening this policy, but we will be tightening it zone by zone. Depending on the zone, the scale of infections, depending on the number of new cases in the last 2 weeks, because that's how zones are defined, we will apply new tools. The proposal for new tools that we will apply is as follows. Firstly, regarding the limitation of gatherings and weddings in the green zone, we will reduce the limit, which so far was 150 people, to 100 people. I want to clearly emphasize that recently, especially in Małopolska, weddings and such gatherings were responsible for over 10% of new infections. This is not intuitive; it is an indication derived from our data analysis and the impact of this phenomenon on the spread of the pandemic. Regarding the yellow zone, the limit was 100 people until now. We want to reduce it to 75. Meanwhile, in the red zone, this limit was 50 people, and it remains unchanged - the Minister of Health continued.

- A new restriction will appear in the red zone. This is a new type of restriction that has not yet been in our regulations. Here, drawing on examples and analysis of the tools used in other countries, we want to introduce a solution concerning the limitation of the operation of catering establishments, restaurants, bars, and pubs. We want to limit them, exclusively in the red zone, until 10:00 PM. This is because the summer season is ending. Unfortunately, outdoor seating is gradually being eliminated, and outdoor seating provided a greater level of safety and thus a lower risk of coronavirus transmission. Since these events, if one can call them that, will be moving indoors, we want this to happen within a limited timeframe, until 10:00 PM - he noted.

- The third modification of the restrictions is the obligation to cover the mouth and nose in the open air. Until now, such an obligation existed only in the red zone. We want to extend this obligation to the yellow zone as well - said Niedzielski.