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Critical infrastructure plays a key role in ensuring the national security of a state, due to important functions thereof in
military, economic, and public administration sectors. The destruction, damage, failure or other deprivation of critical infrastructure of its operational capabilities constitutes a direct threat to the structural and personal security of the state. The
research methods and techniques implemented in the research process itself primarily hinge on critical analysis of acts of law
and organisational and competence-related documents, subject-matter literature, synthesis and inference in order to reach
the formulated objectives based on efficiency criteria. The main findings indicate that critical infrastructure is perceived as
a set of systems which exerts a substantial impact on the security of the state and, obviously, its inhabitants. The results
advocate for a reflection that critical infrastructure embraces a number of facilities which appear to be remarkably diverse.
They are buildings, structures, installations, equipment and services which, integrally, form cohesive systems which allow
the proper functioning of a given state. It is the state whose role is just to supervise and coordinate, whereas the operators of
critical infrastructure are the ones who are to protect it. The overall findings of this paper present the notion that safeguarding critical infrastructure is a task of crucial importance to the national security of a state and, therefore, it would be worth
reconsidering the intensification of rules which apply to the infrastructure of national security and its efficient functioning.

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted governments to take radical measures to contain the virus and protect their citizens. These included successive restrictions on social distance, which have led to closing many enterprises in various industries and dismissing their employees. Introducing restrictions has significantly weakened many countries' economies. Stock markets have noted sharp declines. Therefore, public protection has led to severe consequences for the labour market. Attempts at defining them have been undertaken in the body of literature. However, they focus mainly on analysing selected indicators. According to the authors, it is worth analysing the correlation between the number of deaths as the variable that best reflects the disease's severity and selected unemployment rates. It was assumed that the number of deaths is a factor significantly distinguishing the periods before and after the pandemic. Therefore, it is possible to assess the correlation between the pandemic and the labour market condition.