Poland's biggest coal group shuts two mines until Sunday due to epidemic
Poland's biggest coal group, state-run PGG, has temporarily closed two of its mines due to the spread of the new coronavirus among the miners, it said on Monday.
Poland, which generates most of its electricity from coal, has confirmed 11 761 coronavirus cases, including 539 deaths.
PGG, which employs around 40 000 people and produces almost 30-million tonnes of coal annually in eight mines in southern Poland, said that it had confirmed 38 coronavirus cases in the Murcki-Staszic mine in Katowice and 32 cases in the Jankowice mine in Rybnik.