Number of coronavirus cases in Poland exceeds 10,000

FILE PHOTO: A worker wearing protective gear disinfects a public bus during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Gdynia, Poland, April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Matej Leskovsek/File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) – The number of people infected with the new coronavirus in Poland exceeded 10,000 on Wednesday, with the death toll reaching 404, the Health Ministry said on its Twitter account.

The ministry said the number of people infected rose to 10,034 in the country of 38 million.

On Monday the government started to relax some of the restrictions imposed during the outbreak.

Reporting by Marcin Goclowski; Editing by Toby Chopra

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