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Polish senators to be tested for COVID-19 after one gets infected

03.08.2020 07:00
Polish senators will undergo COVID-19 testing after one of them has become infected, officials have announced.
Senator Jan Filip Libicki.
Senator Jan Filip Libicki.Photo: PAP/Wojciech Olkuśnik

Opposition Senator Jan Filip Libicki revealed on Saturday he had contracted the coronavirus.

He has since been admitted to a hospital for treatment.

Upper-house Speaker Tomasz Grodzki said on Sunday that all senators and staff who recently had contact with Libicki would be tested for the virus.

The tests will be carried out on Tuesday, with the results expected a day later, Grodzki told state news agency PAP.

Poland’s newly re-elected President Andrzej Duda is scheduled to be sworn into his second term in office before both houses of Poland’s parliament on Thursday, August 6.

(gs/pk)

Source: PAP, IAR