Poland’s ex-president Solidarity leader Walesa has COVID

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s former president and former Solidarity pro-democracy motion chief, Lech Walesa, stated Friday that he has COVID-19.

The 78-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate stated on Fb that he was shocked to seek out out he's contaminated regardless of the three vaccination doses he has acquired.

“I can’t consider it: I acquired 3 pictures, .... (however) I’m contaminated. (I've a) headache, I can’t heat up my physique. I really feel like my flesh is tearing away from the bones,” Walesa wrote.

“After this painful lesson I'll by no means separate from my masks,” Walesa wrote.

Walesa was fitted with a pacemaker in 2008 and final yr he had a coronary heart surgical procedure.

Within the Nineteen Eighties, Walesa led the nationwide Solidarity motion that finally toppled Poland’s communist leaders by way of an election in 1989. He acquired the Nobel Prize in 1983.

Walesa served as democratic Poland’s first popularly elected president in 1990-95.

Walesa is a robust critic of Poland’s present right-wing authorities.

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The physique of this story has been corrected to say Walesa wrote on Fb, not on Twitter.

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