Polish deputy lower-house speaker, MPs come down with coronavirus

Polish deputy lower-house Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty and several other leftist lawmakers have come down with the coronavirus, state news agency PAP has reported.

Polish deputy lower-house Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty (left), head of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), and the party's deputy leader Tomasz Trela (right).

Photo: PAP/Grzegorz Michałowski

Those who have tested positive for COVID-19 include Tomasz Trela, deputy head of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), and the party’s secretary-general Marcin Kulasek, according to a spokesman.

Also infected is well-known MP Anna-Maria Żukowska and Wiesław Szczepański, a left-wing parliamentarian who heads the Polish lower house's committee on internal affairs and administration, the PAP news agency reported.

„Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.” 🤧

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— Anna-Maria Żukowska 💁🏻‍♀️ #Lewica ↙️↙️↙️🏳️‍🌈☮️ (@AM_Zukowska) January 19, 2021

Officials said on Tuesday that Polish conservative Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin was in hospital after being infected with COVID-19.

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Source: PAP