In the spring, there were fewer cases of COVID-19. Do we know the cause of the coronavirus?

There are fewer illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 than the day before. Yesterday, the Ministry of Health reported 4,203 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 32 deaths. Today, there are 1155 fewer cases, that is, 3048 (including 780 people who had re-infection).

COVID-19 - at first the number of patients increased, now it is declining

Let’s check what the covid report looked like for the last five weeks. Results refer to reports published on Wednesdays.

• February 22 - 2,770 coronavirus infections and 7 deaths

• March 1 - 2992 cases and 14 deaths.

• March 8 - 3907 infections and 19 deaths.

• March 15 - 4071 infections and 26 deaths.

• March 22 - 3048 infections and 29 deaths.

Ministry of Health data for the last week

The Ministry of Health also summed up the results of the period from 16 to 22 March. At that time, there were 18,297 cases of COVID-19 (including 4,719 reinfections). In individual provinces, the following number of infections was recorded:

• Masovian (3015)

• Silesian (1834)

• Greater Poland (1495)

• Lesser Poland (1426)

• Kuyavian-Pomeranian (1397)

• Lublin (1248)

• Lodz (1102)

• West Pomeranian (1054)

• Lower Silesia (865)

• Pomeranian (865)

• Warmian-Masurian (837)

• Subcarpathian (751)

• Podlasie (732)

• Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (685)

• Opole (401)

• Lubusz (346).

Last week, Minister Adam Nedzielski reported a decline in the number of infections in this wave of coronavirus. “This does not necessarily mean that we will now see a decline every day, but we are certainly at the peak of the COVID-19 infection season. The share of the kraken option has reached more than 51%, the head of the Ministry of Health wrote on Twitter.

Since the beginning of the pandemic in Poland, 6,480,647 people have been infected with the coronavirus, 119,199 people have died.

Three years with COVID-19

We have been living in a covid reality for 3 years now. On March 4, 2020, the first case of coronavirus infection was confirmed in our country. Patient zero was a resident of Tsybinka near Slubice. He probably brought the virus from Germany. When the then Minister of Health, Lukasz Szumowski, provided information about the first SARS-CoV-2 infection in our country, time stopped for the Poles. They were stuck at home and listened with bated breath to the latest news about the coronavirus, which was then one big unknown.

Where did the coronavirus come from?

On Monday, US President Joe Biden signed a bill to declassify information about the origin of the coronavirus. In a statement released by the White House, it is noted that finding out the causes of the origin of COVID-19 is aimed at preventing future pandemics. They will also check potential links with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Representatives of the Chinese Foreign Ministry reacted violently to this news. On Tuesday, they organized a briefing for journalists, during which they referred to the decision of the US President. They said that the act manipulated the facts, debunking the theory that the coronavirus leaked from a Chinese laboratory.