Sixteen coronavirus cases confirmed in Poland

2020-03-08 21:13 update: 2020-03-09, 21:21
Photo: PAP/Marcin Obara
Photo: PAP/Marcin Obara
To date sixteen coronavirus case have been confirmed in Poland, the Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski told a press conference on Monday.

He said that more than 170 people are hospitalized and over 4,000 are in quarantine at home. 

The new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes a disease called COVID-19. Its symptoms include fever, cough, shortness of breath, muscle aches and fatigue. It is suspected that coronavirus infection, which can lead to life-threatening pneumonia, first occurred in China at the end of 2019 at a market in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province. (PAP)

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