By AFP 05 January 2022 | 12:34 pm Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for Covid-19 and is self-isolating, his chief of staff Pawel Szrot said on Wednesday. Poland’s President Andrzej Duda arrives for the second day of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit, in Brussels, on July 12, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Tatyana ZENKOVICH Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for Covid-19 and is self-isolating, his chief of staff Pawel Szrot said on Wednesday. “The president is fine, has no severe symptoms and is under constant medical care,” Szrot said on Twitter. Szrot said the president had received three Covid vaccine doses in April, June and December of last year. Poland’s health ministry on Wednesday reported a daily increase of 17,196 cases and 632 Covid-linked deaths. Poland has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Europe — around 63 percent of the adult population — and one of the highest mortality rates but there are few restrictions or vaccine requirements in place. Health Minister Adam Niedzielski also on Wednesday warned that he expected a peak of cases later in January and said the government was readying itself for a potential “catastrophic scenario”. “We are preparing for the Omicron attack,” he said. Latest 2 mins ago Police in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty fired stun grenades Wednesday against more than 1,000 protesters marching towards the main city administration building, an AFP correspondent said. 5 mins ago The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dismissed the widespread rumour that former Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, was planning to defect to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The party, in a statement issued on Wednesday by the state Publicity Secretary, Mazi Emenike Nmeregini, maintained that Ihedioha, who was… 10 mins ago Lagos State Government has exonerated the five students and five employees of Dowen College linked to the death of a 12-year-old student, Sylvester Oromoni, in the state. Also cleared by the government from being responsible for Sylvester’s death, a nephew to Delta state deputy governor, Kingsley Otuaro, was the management and school building in Lekki.… 21 mins ago Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday he had been cleared to leave the hospital, two days after being rushed for emergency treatment of a partial intestinal blockage. 27 mins ago Thousands marched Tuesday along the beaches of Argentina’s Mar del Plata to protest an oil exploration project off the Atlantic coast.
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