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The Ministry of Health today announced 7580 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection. 10 people died from the infection. There are currently 7744 COVID-19 patients in hospitals. The covid statistics look better than a month ago, but there is no reason to be enthusiastic. In many countries, including Europe, there is now an increase in the number of infections, although most of them are long past the fifth wave. Another challenge is the increased epidemiological threat in connection with the influx of refugees from Ukraine to Poland.
- The latest report of the Ministry of Health shows that 7580 coronavirus infections were detected in the last XNUMX hours
- COVID-19 has killed 10 people
- The number of hospitalizations and occupied ventilators is clearly lower. There are 7744 covid patients in hospitals, 487 of them require respiratory therapy
- Experts are still calling for vaccination against COVID-19 and compliance with sanitary and epidemiological rules. This is the only way we are able to limit the spread of the coronavirus and protect ourselves against the severe course of the infection
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We have 7580 (including 812 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the following voivodships: Mazowieckie (1436), Wielkopolskie (902), Pomorskie (625), Kujawsko-Pomorskie (581), Dolnośląskie (533), Zachodniopomorskie (525), Śląskie ( 504), Lubelskie (484), Małopolskie (483), Łódzkie (365), Lubuskie (294), Warmińsko-Mazurskie (267), Świętokrzyskie (149), Opole (134), Podlasie (114), Podkarpackie (102). 82 infections are data without addressing, which will be completed by the sanitary inspection.
1 person died from COVID-19, 9 people died from coexistence of COVID-19 with other conditions.
Number of people infected with coronavirus 5 / 818 (all positive / including deceased persons).
What is the course of the pandemic in Poland? See it in the chart below:
You can check the situation in individual provinces in the report: Coronavirus in Poland – statistics for provinces [CURRENT DATA].
According to the latest information provided by the Ministry of Health, there are 7744 patients in hospitals. This is 233 people less than the previous day. A week ago, on March 6, 9456 beds were occupied.
The number of beds designated by the Ministry of Health for COVID-19 patients is currently 19. 461.
Below you can check how the number of hospitalizations due to coronavirus infection has changed in Poland since the beginning of the pandemic.
Fewer hospitalizations also mean fewer patients requiring respiratory therapy. Currently, 487 people need help with breathing. This is 21 less than the day before. A week ago, on Sunday, 632 patients benefited from such support.
The number of ventilators for COVID-19 patients is 1702.
The announcement of the end of the pandemic is a false start?
Recently, there have been many voices that the COVID-19 pandemic is coming to an end. Such words were also spoken by the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, who said more than a month ago: – I hope that in March we will be able to make bold decisions about lifting restrictions and introducing lighter regulations, so that we can enter the normal mode of operation in spring. I am an optimist, we are dealing with the beginning of the end of the epidemic – he said.
Actually, most restrictions were lifted at the beginning of Marchonly the obligation to cover the nose and mouth remains in closed rooms (in public spaces) and in public transport. The rules of isolation and quarantine also still apply.
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Similar steps were taken (even earlier) in other European countries. In Great Britain, for example, the lifting of restrictions has been going on since January. Masks are only recommended there, as well as self-isolation due to coronavirus infection. Soon there will also be no access to free antigen tests anymore. In many countries, it is also no longer necessary to present a covid passport before entering places such as restaurants or cultural and sports facilities.
These decisions were, of course, linked to the declining number of new cases and deaths and the favorable prognosis.
- See also: What restrictions are still in force in Europe?
Further part below the video.
COVID-19 won’t let go
However, the stream of optimistic information is interrupted by reports of a growing number of infections, in some regions an unprecedented pandemic, unprecedented since the beginning of the pandemic. This is the case, for example, in China, where there are “only” 200-300 cases, but given the country’s history of the pandemic to date and its “zero-COVID” (“zero tolerance” for coronavirus) policy, there is cause for concern.
- Read also: COVID-19 explosion in China. Most daily cases since the start of a pandemic
These certainly also have the authorities Hong Kong, the special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China, where at the beginning of March, there were about 55 new infections and almost 300 deaths. For comparison: a month ago, there were XNUMX infections, and two or three deaths a day. It is worth adding that the basic cycle of vaccination against COVID-19 is behind over 70 percent. residents, but only 26 percent. took a booster dose.
In Europe, more infections with the SARS-CoV-2 virus are reported, among others, by Austria, Germany, Finland, Portugal, France, Italy and the UK. It is very possible that these increases will “come” also to us, because all the trends related to the spread of SARS COV-2 visible in the west are observed in our country with a delay of several weeks.
Epidemiological security and the war in Ukraine
This “forecast” is also worrying in connection with the new challenge of ensuring epidemiological safety in the event of war in neighboring Ukraine. Over 1,5 million refugees from a country with an even lower vaccination rate than ours (slightly over 30%) have already arrived in Poland, which is why experts call for unvaccinated people to opt for this protection. They are also asking the government to organize an educational campaign aimed at Ukrainians to encourage them to vaccinate.
– Humanitarian aid, the principles of battlefield medicine, as well as ordinary humanity, make us first care for our eastern neighbors, for women and children escaping from bombs. Nothing else is more important. Even an ongoing epidemic. But experts see the need for efficient organization of vaccination points for arriving refugees, urgent vaccinations of women and children. This is what the rulers should be concerned with. (…) An urgent educational action is needed for our Ukrainian guests, to protect them against COVID-19, because they will stay with us for a long time, and we have to think about the autumn wave of diseases – said Prof. Krzysztof J. Filipiak, cardiologist, internist and clinical pharmacologist, co-author of the first Polish textbook on COVID-19.
Information on how a person from Ukraine can sign up for the COVID-19 vaccination can be found HERE.
Do you want to test your immunity to COVID-19 after vaccination? Have you been infected and want to check your antibody levels? See the COVID-19 immunity test package, which you will perform at Diagnostics network points.
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