⁍ Poland was initially successful in containing the outbreak, but cases started rising after restrictions on public gatherings were eased.

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⁍ On Tuesday authorities reported the fourth record daily increase in a week, with 680 new infections.

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⁍ Poland, a nation of 38 million people, had recorded a total of 48,789 cases and 1,756 deaths as of Wednesday.

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– Schools are set to reopen in Poland on Sept. 1. That’s the date the country’s education minister announced Wednesday, despite the fact that the country has seen more than 48,000 cases of coronavirus, a respiratory illness related to the common cold, and 1,756 deaths as of Wednesday, Reuters reports. “We want students to come back to normal education in schools from September,” says Dariusz Piontkowski, per Reuters. But some are worried about overcrowded schools. “In Poland, in big cities, we have up to a thousand children in one school,” says an education activist. “Maintaining any social distance under such conditions is impossible.”