WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland reported 16,300 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, a daily record, as Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned that people attending mass protests over abortion rights were disregarding “massive” infection risks.
Poland has seen five days of widespread protests following a ruling by the Constitutional Tribunal last Thursday that amounts to a near-total ban on abortion in the predominantly Catholic nation.
(Reporting by Agnieszka Barteczko and Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by Catherine Evans)