Of the new cases confirmed on Monday, the most—1,876—were in the central Mazowieckie province, which includes the national capital Warsaw.
Meanwhile, 1,432 new infections were reported in the densely populated southern coal-mining region of Silesia.
The latest deaths in Poland’s coronavirus outbreak are 28 people with pre-existing medical conditions and one other person who died directly because of COVID-19, the health ministry said.
On Sunday, Poland confirmed 65 deaths and 19,452 new coronavirus infections nationwide, compared with 486 deaths and 23,764 fresh cases a day earlier.
On April 8, the country reported its highest daily toll of 954 deaths related to the coronavirus.
On April 1, the Polish health ministry confirmed 35,251 new single-day cases, the most since the pandemic hit the country early last year.
Poland's first case of coronavirus infection was reported on March 4, 2020.
24,051 in hospitals, 566,736 quarantined
The Polish health ministry announced on Monday morning that 24,051 COVID-19 patients were in hospitals nationwide, 2,152 of them on ventilators, with a further 566,736 people quarantined for possible coronavirus exposure.
Meanwhile, 3,314,243 people have now recovered from COVID-19 throughout the country, the health ministry also said.
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski last week announced a raft of new coronavirus restrictions in response to a persistently high daily number of infections and the threat from the new, highly transmissible strain of the virus, omicron.
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Source: IAR, PAP