Of the new cases confirmed on Saturday 1,600 were in the central region of Mazowieckie, which contains the national capital Warsaw. The southern coal mining region of Silesia had some 1300 of new infections confirmed by officials on Saturday .
Meanwhile, 1,200 new infections were reported in the western province of Wielkopolskie, which is home to the major city of Poznań.
On Friday Poland confirmed 13,239 new coronavirus infections and 531 more deaths.
The health ministry announced Saturday morning that some 20 thousand COVID-19 patients were in hospitals nationwide, 1,906 of them on ventilators, with a further 251 thousand quarantined for possible coronavirus exposure, and over 13 thousand under epidemiological supervision.