WARSAW – Poland recorded a record high number of new daily coronavirus infections for the second day in a row on Thursday as the prime minister prepares to give details of harsher restrictions for the Easter period.
The Health Ministry said it recorded more than 34,000 new cases — thousands more than the nearly 30,000 that set a record on Wednesday.
There were also 520 new deaths. Elsewhere in the region, Hungary, with the world’s highest death rate per capital in recent days, set a new record for daily deaths on Thursday with 252.
That brings the deaths to nearly 19,000 in the country of fewer than 10 million. In Poland, officials say this “third wave” of the pandemic is driven by the highly contagious virus variant first detected in