WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s deputy well being minister mentioned Friday the nation hit a COVID-19 pandemic report of 36,665 new infections reported in 24 hours.
Waldemar Kraska mentioned that 1,390 among the many new circumstances had been confirmed as brought on by the extremely contagious omicron variant.
Well being care authorities predict as much as 50,000 new day by day infections subsequent week, saying the fifth wave might be a troublesome problem to the system, which has some 31,000 hospital beds ready for coronavirus sufferers.
Many medics are saying the already overloaded system just isn't ready to deal with so many circumstances, particularly beneath workers shortages and exhaustion.
There have been 248 deaths amongst coronavirus sufferers reported Friday, a major drop from virtually 800 day by day in late December. The have been over 103,000 deaths in Poland for the reason that begin of the pandemic.
The vaccination charge is sort of 57% on this nation of some 38 million, and a few 9 million folks have acquired booster pictures.