By Reuters Staff
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish health care was plunged into confusion on Thursday after a surprise overnight decision to widen eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines triggered the crash of an online registration system, just as new infections soared to a new daily high.
FILE PHOTO: A health worker in protective suit waits for people at a test center in front of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Warsaw, Poland October 27, 2020. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
The incident left Polish doctors temporarily unable to prescribe drugs for non-coronavirus ailments, immunologist Pawel Grzesiowski told Reuters.
It played out against the backdrop of a health service stretched to its limits by spiralling coronavirus case numbers that have left hospitals in some Polish regions on the brink of running out of ventilators.
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