Warsaw:Poland's President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for the coronavirus, but is feeling well, his spokesman said Saturday.
The spokesman, Blazej Spychalski, said on Twitter that the 48-year-old conservative leader was tested the day before and his result was positive. He said the president is in isolation.
“The president feels good,” Spychalski said. "We are in constant contact with the relevant medical services.”
Duda's diagnosis comes amid a huge surge in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 and virus-related deaths in Poland, a nation that saw only very low infection rates in the spring.
The fast spread of the virus is pushing the country's strained health system to the breaking point. Doctors say patients are now dying not only from COVID-19 but from other illnesses that overwhelmed hospitals are not able to treat.
The government is preparing to open field hospitals but it is not clear where it will find the doctors and nurses to staff them.
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Duda on Friday visited the National Stadium in Warsaw, which is being transformed into one of the field hospitals. He also bestowed state honours Friday on Iga Swiatek, the 19-year-old Polish tennis player who won the French Open earlier this month, and her father and trainer, Tomasz Swiatek.