We have crossed the symbolic mark of 100,000 deaths due to COVID-19. Deaths confirmed by tests, because experts - incl. Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski, an expert of the Supreme Medical Chamber on pandemic, or prof. Krzysztof Pyrć has no doubts - there are perhaps twice as many victims of COVID-19.
Coronavirus: Devastating data on deaths in Poland
Published Jan. 11, 2022 12:56
The first fatal victim of COVID-19 died on March 12, 2020 in a hospital in Poznań. For several months, Poland maintained a low number of infections and deaths, which was repeatedly invoked by politicians of the United Right - even during debates in the Sejm - as proof of how well we are dealing with the pandemic, comparing our statistics with data from countries such as Italy, Spain, France or the United Kingdom. Britain. Then the comparisons ended - in the fall of 2020, a huge wave of deaths from COVID-19 came, coupled with an even higher wave of overall excess mortality. And for over a year, Poland has been in the forefront of the world - among developed countries - in terms of citizen mortality.
At the moment, in terms of the number of deaths per million inhabitants, we are 18th in the world and everything indicates that in January we may move up this tragic ranking, because although the average daily number of deaths is falling (at the moment - slightly over 8 per million inhabitants), it is clearly higher than in the countries immediately ahead of us (Armenia - the index slightly above 1, Slovenia - 3.3).
Even taking into account the evidently underestimated number of deaths in Poland compared to other EU countries (everywhere there are at least several times more tests than in our country), covid deaths in Poland are 11 percent. of all covid deaths in the EU.
For slightly less than one-ninth of all deaths from COVID-19 in the European Union (approx. 920,000). More victims were killed by the virus, looking at absolute numbers, only in Italy, France and Germany - i.e. countries more populous than Poland. Spain, which is larger than Poland, suffered from high COVID-19 mortality in the first strike of the pandemic, has so far lost 90,000 citizens. Reason? Since autumn 2021, the inhabitants of this country, one of the best vaccinated in Europe and the world, have been infected - but died sporadically.
In terms of population, the data from Poland are still devastating, although they show that other countries in our region also have a problem with high mortality - more people than in Poland died from COVID-19 only in Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Croatia, Slovakia, Romania, Lithuania and Slovenia.
