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Paulo Sousa named new coach of Poland's national football team
Portugal's Paulo Sousa hes been named the new coach of Poland's national football team, the president of Poland's football association (PZPN) Zbigniew Boniek said on Thursday. "I am convinced that the new coach will provide a much needed new impulse for the national team thanks to his coaching excellence and experience," Boniek said as cited in a press statement. 50-year-old Sousa last coached top-tier French club Bordeaux. Earlier he worked as coach at Basel, Fiorentina, Maccabi Tel Aviv and had a short stint as Portugal's assistant coach. As a player, Sousa won the Champions League with Juve...
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Amid coronavirus pandemic, Poland risks haemorrhaging doctors
"I am tired of the constant fight with the system," says Patrycja Matczuk, a young resident doctor at one of Warsaw's paediatric hospitals and a mother of three. One of many Polish doctors who have mulled leaving the country, she says the sheer number of organizational and financial hurdles is forcing her, and others like her, to consider emigrating. Ordering medication can be a problem, hospitals are usually in financial dire straits and patients cannot rely on getting a bed. There's also a shortage of doctors, nurses and medical rescue workers, as well as a lack of broad prophylactic program...
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Nurse is first in Poland to receive vaccine dose
A nurse has become the first person in Poland to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, part of the European Union's coordinated campaign to begin inoculating its hundreds of millions of residents. Alicja Jakubowska, who works as a head nurse at the Interior Ministry hospital in the capital Warsaw, was the first to get a shot of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. "It didn't hurt," she said, according to the PAP news agency. A the top of the list to be vaccinated in Poland are health care workers who treat frontline coronavirus patients. The Ministry of Health reported 3,678 new infections within 24 hours on ...
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Cyberpunk 2077 pulled from PlayStation Store after bug backlash
Tokyo (AFP) - Sony said Friday it is pulling the much-hyped Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation stores around the world after a flood of complaints and ridicule over bugs, compatibility issues and even health risks. The dystopian-themed title is reportedly one of the most expensive video games ever made, and its December 10 release was hotly anticipated -- but the rollout has been far from smooth. Some gamers have posted videos of glitchy graphics on Twitter, while others paired screenshots from much older games with sarcastic comments such as: "I'm blown away by the graphics and environment of Cy...
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Shree Viswanathan: The Investment Opportunities In Poland
ValueWalk’s Raul Panganiban interviews Shree Viswanathan, founder and sole employee of SVN Capital. In this part, Shree discusses the opportunities he sees in Poland, when does he sell, lessons he learned during the period of lockdown, and his favourite books and hobbies. Transcript continues. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Wow. And then last one, you mentioned Poland. So I just want to know what kind of opportunities you are seeing in Poland. And then if you can go more over into an overview of why Poland in general is?Sure. So if I know, let me go from the reverse. Why is P...
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