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First death from coronavirus in Poland

Polish Border Guard officers during a sanitary control on the Polish-Slovakian border in Barwinek, south-eastern Poland, EPA-EFE/Darek Delmanowicz

 

A 57-year-old woman infected with coronavirus was reported dead on Thursday.

The news was reported by the deputy mayor of the western city of Poznań on Thursday noon.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Poland rose to 47, the Health Ministry reported earlier on Thursday.

Poland’s Health Ministry first reported 13 new cases on coronavirus raising the number of total cases in Poland to 44. At 09:30, however, 3 new cases were reported increasing the total number to 47.

Two cases were reported in Rzeszów and one in Poznań.

The first case of coronavirus infection in Poland was reported on March 4, with the patient hospitalised in the western city of Zielona Gora. Other infected people have been hospitalised in Wroclaw, south-western Poland, Warsaw, Racibórz and Kraków, southern Poland, and Ostróda and Szczecin, northern Poland.

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