As of 9 November 2020, a total of 568,138 confirmed cases, 219,371 recoveries, and 8,045 deaths

have been reported in the country.[257]

Lockdown-type control measures started on 10–12 March, closing schools and university classes,
offices and cancelling mass events,[258][259][260] and were strengthened on 25 March, limiting non-family
gatherings to two people and religious gatherings to six and forbidding non-essential travel. [261] On 20
March, the Ministry of Health tried to prevent medical personnel from commenting on the pandemic.
The Polish Ombudsman Adam Bodnar defended medical personnel's right to speak publicly about
the epidemic on constitutional grounds of freedom of speech and the right of the public to
information. Doctors opposed the self-censorship orders. [262] Fatality counts initially only included
deaths from lab-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection (U07.1[263]).[264] Starting on 1 April 2020, fatalities
that were clinically or epidemiologically diagnosed as COVID-19 (U07.2)[263]) were also considered as
COVID-19 deaths by NIPH–NIH.[265] As of 28 March 2020, people in Poland who died in quarantine
from suspected COVID-19 were not tested post mortem for SARS-CoV-2. [266] As of 29 March 2020,
there were 269,307 people under quarantine for suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection and 42,783
SARS-CoV-2 tests had been made since the beginning of testing. [267] The lockdown restrictions were
tightened starting on 31 March–1 April by a government regulation, requiring individuals walking in
streets to be separated by two metres, closing parks, boulevards, beaches, hairdressers and beauty
salons, and forbidding unaccompanied minors from exiting their homes. [268] A followup regulation on
10 April loosened the restrictions on public gatherings starting from 20 April, allowing religious
gatherings and funerals to be held for up to a maximum of 50 people. [269]

Portugal[edit]
Main article: COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal

On 2 March, the first two cases were confirmed in Portugal, both in the city of Porto. One was a
doctor who had returned from holiday in northern Italy, and the other a worker from Spain. [270][271]
On 18 March, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, declared the entirety of the
Portuguese territory in a state of emergency for the following fifteen days, with the possibility of
renewal, the first since the Carnation Revolution in 1974.[272]
On 24 March the Portuguese Government admitted that the country could not contain anymore
the COVID-19 as it is wide spreading and will enter the 'Mitigation Phase' on 26 March. [273]

Romania[edit]
This section is an excerpt from COVID-19 pandemic in Romania[edit]

Confirmed cases by county as of 6 November 2020

  <2,000 confirmed cases

  2,000–4,000 confirmed cases

  4,000–6,000 confirmed cases

  ≥6,000 confirmed cases

The COVID-19 pandemic in Romania is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease

2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus  2 (SARS-CoV-2). The
virus was confirmed to have reached Romania on 26 February 2020, when the first case in Gorj
County was confirmed.[274]
As of 7 November 2020, the National Institute of Public Health reported 296,999 cases, 201,114
recoveries, and 7,793 COVID-19-related deaths. In the specialized health units, the total number of
people hospitalized with COVID-19 is 12,113. [275] Of these, 1,048 were admitted to ICUs.[275] Also,
more than 3.4 million tests have been processed.[275] The positivity rate therefore exceeds 8%.

Russia[edit]
Main article: COVID-19 pandemic in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits coronavirus patients at Moscow hospital on 24 March

Russia implemented preventive measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country by
imposing quarantines, carrying raids on potential virus carriers and using facial recognition to impose
quarantine measures.[276]
On 2 March, Western Russia confirmed its first case in Moscow Oblast.[277][278] Previously on 31
January Russia confirmed first two cases in its Asian part, one in Tyumen Oblast and another
in Zabaykalsky Krai. Both were Chinese nationals, who have since recovered. [279][276]
On 7 March, four new cases were confirmed, three was in Lipetsk and one in Saint Petersburg. All
people visited Italy in the previous two weeks.[280]
On 8 March, three news cases were confirmed, in Moscow, Belgorod and Kaliningrad Oblasts. All
people returned from Italy.[281]
On 10 March, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin signed a decree for banning mass events
in Moscow with more than 5000 participants from 10 March to 10 April. [282]
By 15 April, cases were confirmed in all of Western Russia's federal subjects with the confirmation of
the first case in Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

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