As Health Minister Łukasz Szumowski said "An additional thousand swabs were done [on Friday] and sent in the night to laboratories all over Poland, another 2500 are to be done this Saturday and 5 thousand on Sunday. The good news in all this is that 95 % of people who tested positive are without any symptoms".
The newest total of COVID-19 infections in Poland is 15,510 with 777 deaths from the coronavirus so far, according to information issued on Saturday by the Health Ministry. Since Friday, the number of new cases rose by 144, most (81) are in the Silesian voivodship. According to the Ministry, one in three patients who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 had recovered.
Poland has now relaxed some restrictions introduced in mid-March. This past week preschools and kindergartens were allowed to reopen, also shopping galleries, hotels and outdoor sports areas.
Minister Szumowski announced on Saturday that further decisions regarding the so-called third stage of lifting restrictions will be made early next week. He said that the government programme intended to relax a set of restrictions every fortnight, but also that a new model was being considered, providing a different plan of actions for different regions of the country.
He assured that the ministry was monitoring the situation to make certain that the relaxations had not impacted on the number of new infections.
The third stage of the government programme forecasted reopening hairdressers and restaurants, among others.
Poland's borders still remain closed. Gatherings are banned, and Poles have to cover nose and mouth when in public.
Source: IAR, PAP