The Polish government today is put under quarantine after the Environment Minister became infected with nCoV.

All members of the Polish government who participated in a meeting on March 10 were tested for nCoV and the results are expected to be announced today, chief of the prime minister's office, Michal Dworczyk, said.

"Until then, they were all still isolated," he told reporters in the capital Warsaw.

According to Dworczyk, 9 of the 24 ministers were absent at the meeting. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski also did not participate in the event.

The move came after Polish Environment Minister Michal Wos, 29, yesterday announced he was positive for nCoV and is quarantining.

"After a state ranger I was exposed to found infected with nCoV, I quarantined and tested," Wos said on Twitter. "The test result was positive. I felt fine. I would like to thank the medical staff and express my solidarity with the sick."

Poland, a country of the European Union with 38 million people, currently records 156 cases of Covid-19, including 3 deaths. Poland has banned entry with foreigners and imposed a 14-day quarantine with citizens returning from abroad.

International flights and trains are closed, schools, shopping malls, restaurants, bars, casinos are closed, except for supermarkets, pharmacies and some services.

Europe is the new center of the world. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday it had proposed member countries to ban unnecessary travel to the EU for 30 days to deal with Covid-19.

EU leaders are expected to discuss the proposal in a remote meeting on March 17. The bloc has yet to find a unified countermeasure against Covid-19, while some countries have imposed unilateral border controls.