Poland is ramping up training for nurses and could consider setting up military field hospitals for coronavirus patients, as daily reported cases hit a new record of 6,526 on Wednesday, officials said.
FILE PHOTO: People are tested for the coronavirus disease at a drive-thru testing centre in Warsaw, Poland, October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
As of Wednesday, COVID-19 patients occupied 6,084 hospital beds and were using 467 ventilators out of around a 1,000 available overall, compared with 5,669 and 421 respectively a day earlier. “I don’t have any good information. We are on the brink of disaster,” immunologist Pawel Grzesiowski told private radio RMF. He said Poland should be doing more testing, closing schools and supporting doctors in their fight against the pandemic. Instead, he said, it was trying to blame doctors for the difficult situation.
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