First death from coronavirus in Poland

A 57-year-old woman infected with coronavirus died on Thursday, as Jędrzej Solarski, the deputy mayor of Poznań, announced.

The 57-year-old patient was the first person in Wielkopolska to be confirmed with SARS-Cov-2 infection. The woman was in the infectious ward of the Multispecialized Municipal Hospital of Józef Struś in Poznań. From the beginning her condition was severe – she had symptoms of very severe clinical pneumonia and was connected to a ventilator and kept in a pharmacological coma.

“Probably in a week, maybe a little later, 1,000 people will be infected with coronavirus in Poland,” Minister of Health Łukasz Szumowski said.

Currently, 51 coronavirus infections have been confirmed nationwide.

(PAP)