Of the new cases confirmed on Tuesday, the most—3,756—were in the central Mazowieckie province, which includes the national capital Warsaw.
The latest deaths in Poland’s coronavirus outbreak are 287 people with pre-existing medical conditions and 111 others who died directly because of COVID-19, the health ministry said.
On Monday, Poland confirmed eight deaths and 12,334 new coronavirus infections nationwide, compared with 41 deaths and 18,883 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.
18,320 in hospitals, 490,136 quarantined
The Polish health ministry announced on Tuesday morning that 18,320 COVID-19 patients were in hospitals nationwide, 1,551 of them on ventilators, with a further 490,136 people quarantined for possible coronavirus exposure.
Meanwhile, 2,913,320 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 later this month or in early December, with up to 35,000 daily cases.
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Source: IAR, PAP