Quarantine a headache for Polish healthcare commuters in east Germany


  • World
  • Tuesday, 31 Mar 2020

A Polish nursing staff Tomasz Jamro is seen during work at the Asklepios clinic, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Pasewalk, Germany March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

PASEWALK, Germany (Reuters) - If Tomasz Jamro, an emergency ward nurse in eastern Germany, returns home to see his wife and three children over the border in Poland, he will be stuck: authorities there will quarantine him for two weeks.

He is one of two dozen Polish medical staff who work at a hospital across the border in Pasewalk, northeastern Germany, where preparations for an expected wave of coronavirus patients are being hindered by the closure of once-open borders.

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