Hundreds of people who live in Poland and work in Germany protested on Friday evening in the southwestern Polish border town of Zgorzelec against a mandatory coronavirus quarantine for those who cross the border.
Cross-border workers stage protest at Polish-German border demanding to be exempt from the mandatory quarantine during coronavirus disease outbreak at the crossing in Rosowek, Poland April 24, 2020. Krzysztof Hadrian/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERS
The protest was staged on a foot bridge connecting Zgorzelec and the German town of Gorlitz, which functioned as one town before the borders were closed. Around 300 people gathered at the Polish side and some 100 at the German, some wearing face masks. The two groups were separated by a provisional metal fence that has been erected in the middle of the bridge to prevent people from crossing the border.
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