Poland has closed all schools, museums and cinemas, while Ukraine's capital city Kiev will shut all educational buildings due to fears of coronavirus spreading, APA reports citing Daily Mail.
Poland has only 26 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and no recorded fatalities.
Ukraine's capital Kiev also announced today that it will be closing schools and universities until the end of March to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
'We are introducing preventive measures in Kiev as of March 12,' mayor Vitaly Klitschko said in a statement, adding classes would be suspended in schools and universities until the end of March.
It is the next move in a sweeping set of protective measures being implemented by the former eastern bloc countries.
Poland's top military commander, General Jaroslaw Mika, contracted the coronavirus while on a mission in Germany, the defence ministry tweeted on Tuesday, adding that he was doing well and that others who flew with him were in quarantine.
Poland also banned mass events and expanded existing health checks on the German and Czech borders to also cover Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania.
Travellers arriving by road, rail or ferry will have their temperature taken and their details will be collected in case they need to be contacted.
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