One of the seventeen confirmed coronavirus infections in Poland concerns an employee of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex).

Chris Borowski, a spokesperson for Frontex, confirms that one of their employees has been infected. He also stated that the agency’s headquarters located at Plac Europejski was closed on monday, with employees being asked to work remotely.



Mr. Borowski reassured that preventive measures have been taken and that the agency is in constant contact with Polish sanitary services.



In addition, the infected employees family members and other people who have had direct contact with him have been placed in mandatory 14-day quarantine.



So far, two cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed in Mazowieckie province. Both patients are hospitalised in Warsaw. One of them is a Spanish woman who arrived in Poland by plane from Germany. The other patient is a young person who had recently returned from Italy.



The infectious disease COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, first surfaced in December in the city of Wuhan located in central China. Since then, Infections been reported in, among others, Israel, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada, the United States and Australia. The hardest hit countries with thousands of cases are, apart from China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran. There have been no lethal cases in Poland yet but the hospital in Wrocław reports that they have an elderly patient who is in a serious condition.



The new virus is mainly transmitted through the air with symptoms of infections including fever, coughing, dyspnea, muscle pain and fatigue.