WARSAW, June 22. /TASS/. The number of coronavirus cases in Poland reached 32,227 people, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
According to the Ministry, over the past day, 296 new cases have been reported, 3 patients have died.
According to the latest data, since March 4, when the first coronavirus case was detected in the country, 1,359 patients died in total, 17,076 people recovered. Over the past months, more than 1.2 mln tests for coronavirus have been conducted.
Around 1,800 patients with coronavirus remain in hospitals, 72 of which are connected to mechanical ventilation devices. More than 93,000 people are in home quarantine. Around 18,000 people remain under epidemiological surveillance.
In late December 2019, Chinese officials notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about the outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, in central China. Since then, cases of the novel coronavirus - named COVID-19 by the WHO - have been reported in every corner of the globe, including Russia.
On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. According to the latest statistics, over 9,000,000 people have been infected worldwide and more than 470,900 deaths have been reported. In addition, so far, over 4,847,000 individuals have recovered from the illness across the globe.
To date, 592,280 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Russia, with 344,416 patients having recovered from the disease. Russia’s latest data indicates 8,206 fatalities nationwide. Earlier, the Russian government set up an Internet hotline to keep the public updated on the coronavirus situation.