Poland reports highest daily Covid-19 cases this year
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Thu, Mar 11 2021 11:06 IST |
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Poland reports highest daily Covid-19 cases this year (Photo by Jaap Arriens/Xinhua/IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Warsaw, March 11 : Poland s health authorities confirmed 17,260 new Covid-19 infections in 24 hours on Wednesday, the highest daily increase since the start of the year.
In total, over 1.8 million people in the country of 38 million have been infected with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic a year ago. Almost 46,000 lost their lives to Covid-19, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Meanwhile, the country s hospitals have been filling up since the start of the third wave of the pandemic in February. On Wednesday, 1,902 of the 2,702 ventilators available for Covid-19 patients in the country were occupied.