WARSAW, July 1 (Xinhua) -- A ban imposed by the Polish government on staying in the country's border zone with Belarus came to an end on Friday.
The ban was introduced on Sept. 2, 2021, in response to a border crisis that saw thousands of migrants attempting to cross into Poland from Belarus. A total of 183 towns in the Lublin and Podlasie provinces were affected by the ban.
However, from July 1 till Sept. 15, admission will only be prohibited in the 200-meter-wide strip along the Podlasie section of the border, where Poland says it will install electric cameras and motion sensors.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday visited an area near the border to mark the completion of a wall designed to keep out migrants.
The 186-kilometer-long, 5.5-meter-high steel barrier took five months to build, and cost 1.6 billion zloty (354 million U.S. dollars). ■
