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 The country of 38 million, the largest in the European Union's
eastern wing, reported 768 coronavirus-related deaths on Friday,
after the number of deaths hit a new record of 954 on Thursday.
"This is indeed a war and the situation requires non-standard
behaviours," he told private radio RMF 24.
"These are the toughest, the most difficult pictures, which reflect
the burden of this work," Niedzielski said when asked to comment on
some doctors' using drips and oxygen to regain strength to work.
"When I visited a temporary hospital in Katowice I saw doctors and
nurses sleeping to rest in between their shifts. The intensity of
work is significant, which results from the deficit of personnel,"
Niedzielski said.
Poland reported record high numbers of new cases last week at around
35,000 a day and on Wednesday the government extended restrictions
until April 18, keeping kindergartens, schools, shopping centres,
hotels, cinemas and theatres closed.
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 The previous 24-hour death
record was 674, reported in November. On Friday
Poland reported 28,487 new coronavirus
infections, bringing the total to more than 2.5
million.
"If we look at the course of the number of new
infections, it seems that the apogee of
infections is behind us," Niedzielski told a
press conference, warning against complacency.
"The pandemic is still a real threat and the
fact that we see some slight falls is absolutely
not a signal which would allow us to think that
we have the worst behind... Now we will have to
do with an apogee, so to say, in hospitals," he
said.
(Reporting by Agnieszka Barteczko and Anna
Wlodarczak-Semczuk; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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