Adam Niedzielski made the declaration in a television interview on Thursday, state news agency PAP reported.
Asked about the government’s response to a possible new wave of COVID-19 infections, Niedzielski said the authorities would monitor the number of hospitalisations across the country.
“This is the parameter that will shape decisions and determine what measures we’ll be introducing,” Niedzielski told private TV station Polsat News.
He said that mass COVID-19 testing would return if the number of hospital cases reached "a certain point."
He elaborated that the government was “tentatively” putting this threshold at “about 5,000 cases.”
Emergency plans 'at the ready'
“We are very far from that threshold yet,” Niedzielski said, adding that the number of COVID-19 hospitalisations was "currently around 400."
He also told Polsat News that the government had emergency plans “at the ready” to bring back mass testing, increase the number of hospital beds or "reintroduce mask wearing on public transport if necessary."
On Wednesday, Poland reported 964 fresh COVID-19 cases, including 133 reinfections, and three deaths of people with COVID-19, officials said.
Since March 4, 2020, when the first Polish case was detected, the number of COVID-19 infections has totalled 6,018,565. There have been 116,440 deaths of people with COVID-19, the PAP news agency reported.
In May, Poland downgraded its classification of the COVID-19 pandemic, lifting "a state of epidemic" and announcing "a state of epidemic threat" instead.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, medonet.pl
