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A British strain of COVID-19 has also been found in Poland in the past. This is also established for a person in Lithuania.
On Friday, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announced at a press conference that the laboratory of Białystok Medical University has also confirmed the first case of a strain originating in the countries of South Africa. No further details of the infected person are released.
The minister acknowledged that the third wave of COVID-19 has already occurred in Poland. According to him, the increasing number of new cases is already a long-term trend, not a one-day statistic.
This week, the average number of new COVID-19 cases in one day has already exceeded 6.5 thousand. threshold increased by 23%.
Lithuania is from this week reinforced controls on arrivals from Poland. Officials check whether visitors from the Polish side are registered with the NVSC, have codes to confirm this or have provided the necessary data.
Upon arrival from Poland, a COVID-19 test must be performed and, regardless of the test result, isolation for 10 days. You can find all the rules here.
In Poland, 8,777 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected last day and 241 previously infected patients died.
9,073 new cases of coronavirus infection and 273 deaths were reported Thursday, and 8,694 COVID-19 cases and 279 deaths were reported on Wednesday.
The latest data from the Ministry of Health shows that a total of 1,623,218 cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed in the country since the start of the pandemic, and 41,823 people have died.
The ministry said Friday morning that 12,441 patients with COVID-19 are currently being treated in hospitals across the country, of which 1,306 require artificial lung ventilation.
Since the start of the pandemic in Poland, 1,365,216 people have recovered from a coronavirus infection, 6,550 of them the day before, the ministry said.
Data from the Ministry of Health shows that so far more than 1.69 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Poland. people, and more than 865 thousand people have already been vaccinated with both doses. persons.
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