Poland shatters COVID-19 deaths record

Poland on Saturday reported a record 548 new deaths linked to the coronavirus, its highest daily toll since the epidemic hit the country in March.

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PAP/Darek Delmanowicz

Officials reported 25,571 new coronavirus infections.

The latest deaths in Poland’s coronavirus outbreak are 428 people with pre-existing medical conditions, and 119 who died directly because of COVID-19, the Polish health ministry said in a tweet.

A total of 691,118 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Poland since the pandemic began, and 10,045 have died in connection with the COVID-19 respiratory disease so far, public health officials announced.

📊 Dzienny raport o #koronawirus. pic.twitter.com/uP51mWx8JT

— Ministerstwo Zdrowia (@MZ_GOV_PL) November 13, 2020

Poland’s prime minister said this week that millions of vaccines against the coronavirus were likely to reach his country next spring as part of a European deal with drug makers.

The European Union on Wednesday struck a deal to buy up to 300 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine from US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.

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Source: IAR, PAP