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The Ministry of Health today announced 11 new deaths from SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection and 341 infections. The number of deaths due to COVID-19 has already exceeded 1000. What do we know about the victims?
The number of deaths due to COVID-19 in Poland has exceeded 1000 people
The first death recorded in Poland due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic occurred on March 12 (8 days after the diagnosis of the first confirmed case in Poland). The deceased was a 57-year-old woman. The deputy mayor of Poznań informed about the death. The deceased was middle-aged and was hospitalized on March 9. The woman’s husband was also infected with the coronavirus.
Since then, 1007 deaths have been reported in Poland. How are the statistics presented?
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Oldest and youngest COVID-19 deaths
For a long time, doctors argued that the youngest had SARS-CoV-2 infection mildly or even asymptomatically. However, recent reports from Europe suggest that children may develop a strange disease related to COVID-19 infection.
In Poland, so far we have not recorded any deaths among children aged 0-9. The youngest victims of the coronavirus are an 18-year-old man from Kędzierzyn-Koźle and an 18-year-old woman who died in a hospital in Radom. In total, there were 40 deaths among people under 15.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is much more dangerous for the elderly. Today, MZ announced the death of 99 women. She is the oldest death victim of the coronavirus. The greatest number of deaths was recorded in the 80-89 age group. The mean age of the deceased patients is 74,73 years.
According to the information provided by the Ministry of Health, 19 men and 470 women died due to COVID-457.
Data on age and sex do not include 80 victims, as the ministry did not provide details of the deceased in the first days of the epidemic, but only the number of the deceased.
Deaths in individual provinces
So far, the largest number of deaths has been recorded in the Mazowieckie voivodship. Silesia is in second place and Greater Poland is in third place. So far, only 1 death due to COVID-19 has been recorded in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie voivodship.
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