Of the new cases confirmed on Tuesday, the most—2,479—were in the central Mazowieckie province, which includes the national capital Warsaw.
Meanwhile, 1,991 new infections were reported in the densely populated southern coal-mining region of Silesia.
The latest deaths in Poland’s coronavirus outbreak are 386 people with pre-existing medical conditions and 151 others who died directly because of COVID-19, the health ministry said.
On Monday, Poland confirmed 29 deaths and 11,379 new coronavirus infections nationwide, compared with 65 deaths and 19,452 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.
24,542 in hospitals, 595,398 quarantined
The Polish health ministry announced on Tuesday morning that 24,542 COVID-19 patients were in hospitals nationwide, 2,132 of them on ventilators, with a further 595,398 people quarantined for possible coronavirus exposure.
Meanwhile, 3,333,313 people have now recovered from COVID-19 throughout the country, the health ministry also said.
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski last week announced a raft of new coronavirus restrictions in response to a persistently high daily number of infections and the threat from the new, highly transmissible strain of the virus, omicron.
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Source: IAR, PAP