Poland Marks 100,000 Covid-Related Deaths as Omicron Wave Nears

Poland’s Covid-related death toll reached 100,000 on Tuesday, with the country still bracing for the outbreak of the omicron variant.

Average excess mortality in Poland during the pandemic has exceeded 20%, according to Eurostat data, one of the worst results in the European Union. In the last two years, Poland registered 190,000 more deaths than the annual average for the three years before the pandemic, civil registry data showed.