Salt therapy and a dose of fun help Poles fight long Covid
One of the world's oldest salt mines, Wieliczka, is a World Heritage Site, but also a health resort that has been offering salt therapy to patients with pulmonary issues for nearly 200 years.
Gyrating with gusto to the sounds of
Girls Just Want To Have Fun, a group of middle-aged Poles is fighting off lingering Covid symptoms with gym circuits.
But this is no ordinary fitness workout.
It is taking place 130m underground in a cavernous space next to a dark green brine lake in a former salt mine in southern Poland that dates back to the 13th century.