Polish hospitals struggle with surge of coronavirus patients

A medical worker attends to a Covid-19 patient in an emergency ward at a hospital in Poland (Omar Marques/AP)

Polish hospitals struggled over the Easter weekend with a massive number of people infected with Covid-19 following a huge surge in infections across Central and Eastern Europe in recent weeks.

Tougher new pandemic restrictions were ordered in Poland for a two-week period surrounding Easter in order to slow down the infection rate.