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 The government ordered theatres, shopping malls, hotels and cinemas
to close last week after a rise in cases, fuelled by the more
contagious variant first found in Britain.
There have been growing media reports that it will have to bring in
more curbs ahead of the busy Easter holidays, usually marked by
packed church services and family gatherings in the deeply Catholic
country.
"We have to suffocate the third wave. That's why we will announce
new restrictions...that will be enforced during the week before and
the week after the (Easter) holidays," Prime Minister Mateusz
Morawiecki told a news conference on Wednesday.
He did not provide details.
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 Poland also reported 575 daily
coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday in a new
record for 2021.
The country has reported a total of 2,120,671
confirmed coronavirus cases and 50,340 deaths.
Poland's last daily record was 27,875 new cases
reported in November 2020 at the height of the
pandemic's second wave.
(Reporting by Agnieszka Barteczko, Joanna
Plucinska and Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by
Christopher Cushing, Andrew Heavens and Kim
Coghill)
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