up Facilities in Poland to provide information on e.g. on: people suspected of SARS-CoV-2 staying in sobering-up stations, activities conducted with regard to such people, procedures to prevent infections, staff preparation for the situation, coronavirus testing, isolation procedures and staff quarantine356. The response sent by the NMPT stated that among people brought to the sobering-up stations and other facilities taking care of intoxicated people, there were three cases of persons suspected of the coronavirus infection. The cases were registered in: the Alcoholism Prevention Centre in Bielsko-Biała, the Centre for Solving Alcoholism-Related Problems in Słupsk and the Sobering-up Station in Gliwice. The persons’ test results were negative357. All employees and persons who had contact with the tested persons were placed under epidemiological supervision until the test results were received. The facilities’ rooms were also disinfected. The Bielsko-Biała centre suspended it activity for the period from 13 March to 23 March 2020358. Four staff members of the Centre for Assistance to Addicts and Their Families in Chorzów were quarantined and tested due to suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, the test results were negative. In the remaining sobering-up stations, it was not necessary to quarantine the staff359. Between 23 March and 4 May 2020, there were 11 cases of refusal to admit an intoxicated person to a sobering-up station due to the symptoms of the coronavirus infection; in all the cases the refusing entity was the Alcoholism Prevention Centre in Bielsko-Biała. Each of the persons, after a detailed medical examination, was transported from the centre by an ambulance directly to a specialist hospital. Other sobering-up stations and similar facilities did not register any persons with a suspected coronavirus infection, although most sobering-up stations had special isolation rooms prepared for persons with the suspected infection, from where they would be taken by relevant services360. Directors of sobering-up stations and similar facilities in Poland introduced procedures to prevent coronavirus infections. They included e.g. the following provisions: • any person brought for sobering-up has his/her body temperature measured using a non-contact thermometer; • it is necessary to interview every person brought for sobering-up, to determine whether he/she had had any contact with an infected person in the past 14 days or has stayed abroad; the information should be recorded in the admission form; 356 See: letter of 2 April 2020, KMP.071.4.2020.PK. 357 See: letter of 4 May 2020, SDiGKIW.03.05.2020. 358 Ibid. 359 Ibid. 360 Ibid. 136