The death toll increased by 34, the Health Ministry wrote on Twitter. It added that 32 of these patients had pre-existing medical conditions, while 2 died directly because of COVID-19.
Of the new cases confirmed on Saturday , 290 were in the southern province of Małopolskie, which includes the historic city of Kraków.
Meanwhile, 277 new infections were reported in the central region of Mazowieckie, which contains the national capital Warsaw.
The country's northern Pomorskie province, where multiple outbreaks have emerged in recent weeks, had the third-highest number of new infections confirmed on Saturday, at 244.
Poland’s last three daily highs were reported over three consecutive days, when 2,292 new coronavirus infections were confirmed nationwide on Friday and 1,967 on Thursday.
A total of 98,140 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Poland since the start of the pandemic, and 2,604 have died from the COVID-19 respiratory disease so far, public health authorities said on Saturday.
Meanwhile, 72,902 people have now recovered from COVID-19 throughout the country.
Meanwhile, the coronavirus epidemic in Poland is developing more slowly than in nearly all neighbouring countries, the state-run Polish news agency PAP reported on Friday, citing data provided by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The indicator for new infections per 100,000 population over the last fortnight stands at 45 in Poland, 90 in Slovakia, 97 in Ukraine, and 283 in the Czech Republic, according to the ECDC. Russia has the confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection rate at 69 per 100,000 inhabitants while Lithuania at 46 and Belarus at 43, PAP wrote.
The ECDC is an independent agency of the European Union (EU) whose mission is to strengthen Europe's defences against infectious diseases. Its reports are based on official data provided by the bloc’s sanitary authorities.
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Source: IAR, PAP