Of the new cases confirmed on Saturday, the most—1,621—were in the central Mazowieckie region, which includes the national capital Warsaw.
Meanwhile, 1,394 new infections were reported in the southern province of Małopolskie, which is home to Poland's second-largest city of Kraków.
The number of confirmed cases of the Omicron variant has increased to 152, health officials also said on Saturday.
The latest deaths in Poland's coronavirus outbreak are 215 people with pre-existing medical conditions and 77 others who died directly because of COVID-19, the health ministry wrote in a statement.
On Friday Poland confirmed 117 deaths and 11,902 new coronavirus infections nationwide, compared with 646 deaths and 16,576 fresh cases a day earlier.
On April 8, 2021, the country reported its highest daily toll of 954 deaths related to the coronavirus.
On April 1, 2021, the Polish health ministry confirmed 35,251 new single-day cases, the most since the pandemic hit the country in early 2020.
Poland's first case of coronavirus infection was reported on March 4, 2020.
18,286 in hospitals, 167,110 quarantined
The Polish health ministry announced on Saturday morning that 18,286 COVID-19 patients were in hospitals nationwide, 1,836 of them on ventilators, with a further 167,110 people quarantined for possible coronavirus exposure.
Meanwhile, 3,710,065 people have now recovered from COVID-19 throughout the country, the health ministry also said.
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski has told reporters that the country is bracing for a peak in COVID-19 omicron cases in late January when up to 60,000 hospital beds could be needed for patients.
Public health authorities in the middle of last month confirmed Poland's first case of the omicron COVID-19 variant.
A range of coronavirus restrictions took effect in the country in December as it seeks to fend off the new, highly contagious strain of the coronavirus.
(mo)
Source: IAR, PAP