Of the new cases confirmed on Monday, the most—2,638—were in the central Mazowieckie province, which includes the national capital Warsaw.
The latest deaths in Poland’s coronavirus outbreak are five people with pre-existing medical conditions and three others who died directly because of COVID-19, the health ministry said.
On Sunday, Poland reported 41 deaths and 18,883 new coronavirus infections nationwide, compared with 382 deaths and 23,414 fresh cases a day earlier.
On April 8, the country reported its highest daily toll of 954 deaths related to the coronavirus.
On April 1, the Polish health ministry confirmed 35,251 new single-day cases, the most since the pandemic hit the country early last year.
Poland's first case of coronavirus infection was reported on March 4, 2020.
17,358 in hospitals, 381,821 quarantined
The Polish health ministry announced on Monday morning that 17,358 COVID-19 patients were in hospitals nationwide, 1,526 of them on ventilators, with a further 381,821 people quarantined for possible coronavirus exposure.
Meanwhile, 2,901,800 people have now recovered from COVID-19 throughout the country, the health ministry also said.
Officials have warned that the number of COVID-19 infections in the country could rise in the weeks ahead as the Delta variant of the coronavirus begins to spread more quickly.
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said at the end of last month that the number of daily COVID-19 infections was growing sharply and that “drastic steps” could be necessary to counteract what he called an “explosion of the pandemic” in the country.
Niedzielski said in a media interview on Sunday that the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was expected to reach its height in Poland in late November or early December, with up to 35,000 daily cases.
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Source: IAR, PAP
