The announcement of the end of the pandemic in Poland may be premature

Despite the increasing number of voices about the beginning of the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization warns against lifting the restrictions too quickly. The WHO indicated that the pathogen is still mutating and may still prove to be dangerous, and in many countries, the wave of omicron infections has not yet reached its peak. Nevertheless, more and more countries in Europe decide to ease the restrictions and treat COVID-19 like other respiratory diseases. Poland is also one of them.

According to the data of the Ministry of Health, since the beginning of the pandemic, over 5.4 million SARS-CoV-2 infections have been recorded in Poland (including 26,100 re-infections), and 108,137 people suffering from Covid-19 have died. Out of 30,200 covid beds, there are slightly more than 18,800 occupied, and 1,137 of the 2,613 available respirators are used. Experts indicate, however, that despite the decline in the number of cases nationwide, the announcement of the beginning of the end of the pandemic in Poland in recent weeks may be premature.

"We still have a large number of hospitalized people in Poland. As for the most severely ill hospitalized in intensive care, requiring a ventilator, this rate is fairly stable and fluctuates around 30 per million. During the previous summit, in spring 2021, this rate was above 90, so it is currently three times lower. Nevertheless, it is falling very slowly, and even has such fluctuations when it rises, so it is still difficult to talk about the end of the pandemic yet. But the growing number of vaccinated people is encouraging, too slowly but still growing," Jarosław Fedorowski, president of the Polish Federation of Hospitals, said.

(Newseria)