Coronavirus not fatal for people without health burden: chief sanitary inspector

According to previous observations, coronavirus is not fatal for people who do not have immunological burdens or those associated with age or other concomitant diseases,  Chief Sanitary Inspector Jarosław Pinkas told Polska Times daily.

He added that the prognosis for recovery is very high and most patients recover.

When asked if we should be afraid of this disease, he said that "we should be afraid of all viruses because they are generally dangerous.

To the remark that there is no vaccine for coronavirus, he confirmed that it is so and added that there are no special, specific drugs. "It is treated only symptomatically," he said. The head of GIS also informed that Poland is prepared for this disease.

“We have hospitals, respirators, well-educated doctors. It all depends, of course, on the scale of the threat,” he noted.

(PAP)