Infections may soon reach their highest ever level in Poland, says the health minister.
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Polish government sends over 15 million text messages to encourage Covid booster jabs
Poland today recorded another 23,000 new daily coronavirus cases and over 400 deaths.
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The development will “not adversely affect the proper functioning of the government”, says a spokesman.
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The health minister has replaced what some doctors complained was an “obsolete” system.
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Some local authorities are seeking to keep their schools closed.
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New daily record of coronavirus cases in Poland as rise in infections continues
But hospitalisations and deaths remain below their earlier peak.
