Of the new cases confirmed on Tuesday, the most—3,610—were in the central Mazowieckie region, which includes the national capital Warsaw.
Meanwhile, 2,193 new infections were reported in the densely populated southern coal mining region of Silesia.
The latest deaths in Poland’s coronavirus outbreak are 268 people with pre-existing medical conditions and 109 others who died directly because of COVID-19, the health ministry said.
On Monday, Poland confirmed four deaths and 10,445 new coronavirus infections nationwide, compared with 35 deaths and 14,667 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.
14,398 in hospitals, 377,696 quarantined
The Polish health ministry announced on Tuesday morning that 14,398 COVID-19 patients were in hospitals nationwide, 1,421 of them on ventilators, with a further 377,696 people quarantined for possible coronavirus exposure.
Meanwhile, 3,806,139 people have now recovered from COVID-19 throughout the country, the health ministry also said.
A day earlier, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski told reporters that Poland had entered a fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic amid the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
He warned that infections in the country could soon hit record levels.
"We predict that infections will peak in mid-February and that peak will be at about 60,000 cases a day," Niedzielski told a news conference on Monday.
Public health authorities in the middle of last month confirmed Poland's first case of the omicron COVID-19 variant. Since then 708 more omicron cases have been detected, according to Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska.
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.
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Source: IAR, PAP