WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s daily new coronavirus cases in the next two weeks may exceed 2000, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Thursday, as the country reported a record in new COVID-19 infections.
“We have to expect an escalation of the pandemic. Our forecasts show that in the nearest future, I’m talking about the next two weeks, this figure will continue to be in the range of over 1500, even 2000 a day,” Niedzielski told a news conference.
Poland reported a record number of new daily coronavirus infections on Thursday, with the Health Ministry announcing 1,967 new cases.
(Reporting by Agnieszka Barteczko and Anna Koper; Editing by Toby Chopra)
