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On August 18, the Ministry of Health announced 5271 new cases of COVID-19. Although on August 17th brought another record of summer wave infections (7175 cases), the Minister of Health emphasized that this result “is not a reliable reflection of the epidemic situation”, but inter alia the effect of a long weekend. What is happening now? Get to know the detailed epidemic data.
- Today, 5271 coronavirus infections have been detected in Poland
- On the last day, 13 tests for the presence of SARS-CoV-578 were performed
- 19 patients died from COVID-28 and 19 recovered
- During the last 34 hours, 267 vaccinations were performed
- More information can be found on the Onet homepage
The summer COVID-19 wave in Poland continues. On August 18, the health ministry informed about 5271 new cases of coronavirus infection. Among them, there are 971 re-infections. 28 patients died and 19 recovered.
On August 17, the summer wave record was set. The health ministry reported 7175 new cases, including 1306 new infections.
«Today’s result is over 7 the reported cases is not a reliable reflection of the epidemic situation. We look at him through the prism of the long August weekend and the Tuesday accumulation of patients in primary care. Last week we recorded a minimal increase in the number of occupied beds »- explained the Minister of Health on 17 August.
Weekly covid reports. The first such result in the sixth wave
Recent weekly reports from the Ministry of Health also brought records of infections. 4163, 7569, 12 thous. 762, 19 thous. 577 thous. 21, 973 thous. 24 – this has been the situation over the past six weeks.
Last week has finally seen a decline. According to the Ministry of Health, in the period from 11 to 17 August 2022 there were 22 (including 712 re-infections) confirmed cases of infection. The largest number of cases was recorded in the following voivodships: Mazowieckie (3737), Śląskie (3647), Małopolskie (2882), Wielkopolskie (1892) and Dolnośląskie (1603).
Recent data offer hope for a declining number of deaths due to or complicating COVID-19. While the previous week saw 109 deaths from the coronavirus, there were 81 in the last seven days.
The COVID-19 epidemic in Poland. “We do not know at what stage it is”
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health, 13 tests for the presence of SARS-CoV-578 were performed on the last day (last week there were a total of 2 thousand).
Doctors and scientists point out the insufficient level of testing and thus “only conventional” monitoring of coronavirus infections. – In fact, testing is gone, we have rather “on demand” testing when someone suspects an infection, or self-testing – Dr. Aneta Afelt reminded me in an interview with Medonet. – So it is not known what number of infections we are dealing with.
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- COVID-19 Rapid Test – Antigenic Test for Self-Control
- COVID-19 antigen test – SGTi-flex COVID-19 Ag
- Home COVID-19 Ag SGTi-flex cartridge test
- COVID-19 – Rapid Saliva Antigen Test
As explained by the drug. Bartosz Fiałek, too small number of performed tests means that “the share of positive results in the pool of all tests fluctuates around 30%, and on some days it significantly exceeds this value”. – On this basis, it can be concluded that in general we do not know at what stage the COVID-19 epidemic in our country is – admits the specialist.
– Many cases of the disease are missing from us, so we are not able to reliably determine our place on the map of the development of the epidemiological threat related to SARS-CoV-2.