"Poland will not only not have a recession, but will also see a strong rebound—I think at least around 4 percent," Morawiecki has written in a Facebook post.
Polish GDP contracted 2.8 percent in the final quarter of last year, the country’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) said in a preliminary estimate at the end of last month.
The state-run statistics agency previously reported that Polish GDP fell by 1.5 percent in the third quarter of last year, after shrinking 8.4 percent in the second quarter, and achieving 2 percent growth in the first three months of 2020.
Poland's first case of coronavirus infection was reported on March 4 last year.
The Polish economy contracted by 2.8 percent in 2020 as a whole, according to the Central Statistical Office.
Poland's GDP expanded by 4.5 percent in 2019, after registering 5.3 percent growth in 2018, according to office.
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Source: IAR