(ANSA-AFP) - WARSAW, APR 8 - Poland registered a record 954
Covid deaths over the past 24-hour period, the health ministry
said Thursday, calling the climbing fatalities in the EU nation
"tragic". More than three quarters of hospital beds, including
those with oxygen support, are now full as the country battles a
third wave of coronavirus infections. New cases also jumped --
with 27,887 new infections over the last 24 hours -- but the
health ministry said the increase was in part due to delayed
data from the Easter holiday weekend. "The data is tragic. We
have never seen such a number of deaths," health ministry
spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz told reporters in Warsaw. The
European Union member state of 38 million people has recorded
more than 56,000 Covid deaths. Total infections are at nearly
2.5 million. The situation is particularly difficult in the
southern mining region of Silesia, where hospital patients have
had to be transferred to other regions because of a shortage of
beds. Poland has closed all schools, sports and cultural
facilities, as well as shops selling non-essential goods, until
April 18 to stem the infection spread. (ANSA-AFP).
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