Poland recorded the highest number of COVID-related deaths in Europe last week, according to WHO data. Meanwhile, the country’s surplus death rate during the pandemic in relation to the 2016-2019 period was the highest in the EU as it amounted to 23.5%, according to Eurostat figures.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently mentioned Poland was a leading country in the fight against the pandemic, but “didn’t add that we were leading the mortality rate list,” said opposition lawmaker Monika Wielichowska of the Civic Coalition.
According to Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska, who spoke to private TVN24 station, the main factors in the high mortality rate were patients seeking help too late and the prevalence of the British variant in the country.
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