them (consolidated text: Journal of Laws of 2020, item 1842), voivodeship governors issued instructions for heads of poviat (i.e. county) governments, mayors of cities with the county status, mayors of other cities and heads of municipality governments, ordering them to designate facilities to be used as group quarantine facilities, and describing the rules of their coordination, organisation and operation. The instructions included standards and recommendations to be followed in operating quarantine facilities. They concerned catering, cleaning, disinfection, waste collection, personal protection and disinfection measures. The standards were also set out in individual voivodeship plans of action in the event of an outbreak of an infectious disease/epidemic. Buildings designated as quarantine facilities were inspected by representatives of the poviat (i.e. county) Sanitary and Epidemiological Service Station and then entered in the list of group quarantine facilities in a given voivodeship. However, there were situations when the standards and requirements were not communicated436. In such cases, heads of poviat governments independently developed the requirements, in cooperation with the Poviat Sanitary Inspector or based on information obtained from the voivodeship governor’s office. Not all local authorities had at their disposal any premises that met the requirements of the State Sanitary Inspection Service, because quarantine facilities should have their own bathrooms and toilets. If such premises were not available, an agreement was concluded with a private entity to provide a group quarantine facility as a service to the local authority437. In some cities and counties, also individual quarantine facilities were established. The municipal authorities developed cooperation with hotels or holiday centres which agreed to receive people for a two-week quarantine if those people could not be quarantined at home438. The cost of stay at such a hotel or centre was covered by the quarantined people. There were situations in which the voivodeship governor did establish group quarantine facilities in the poviats (i.e. counties) within the voivodeship.439. The governor only required the county authorities to notify the owner of a given property that it was included in the voivodeship action plan for the time of the epidemic. The group quarantine facilities started to operate only if needed, pursuant to a later decision of the voivodeship governor. In some cases, voivodeship governors decided to unify guidelines on the functioning of group quarantine facilities within their area. This resulted, for example, in the removal of certain facilities from City of Szczecin, County Office of Kołobrzeg, Hospital for Mentally Ill and Psychiatric Patients in Rybnik, County Office of Zduńska Wola, County Office of Giżycko, County Office of Chrzanów, City of Kraków, County Office of Bochnia, County Office of Myślenice, County Office of Oświęcim, City and Municipality of Wschowa, City of Gubin, City of Jelenia Góra, City of Iława, City of Świdnica, City of Tarnów, City of Kalisz, County Office of Leszno. 436 437 County Office of Giżycko, County Office of Sokółka, City of Kraków, Municipality of Nowe Miasteczko. City of Przemyśl, County Office of Mielec, County Office of Ropczyce, County Office of Rzeszów, City of Rzeszów, County Office of Tarnobrzeg. 438 439 County Office of Dębica, County Office of Łańcut, County Office of Żywiec. 158