The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Poland has increased since Tuesday evening by 243 to reach 2,554, the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday evening.

It is necessary to keep the number of employee redundancies from getting out of hand, PM Mateusz Morawiecki wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. He added that the government's anti-crisis shield was designed to help employers to keep their staff.

A third plane carrying medical equipment purchased by state-owned copper producer KGHM landed at Warsaw's Chopin Airport on Wednesday, a fourth plane load of supplies from China is expected to reach Poland on Thursday.

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed on Wednesday an agreement on the participation of a Polish Military Contingent in the new operation "Irini" aimed at counteracting the smuggling of arms to Libya, the National Security Bureau (BBN) said.

At a general audience in Rome on Wednesday, Pope Francis encouraged Poles to entrust themselves to the intercession of Saint John Paul II in the time of the coronavirus threat, and reminded the faithful of the 15th anniversary of the death of the late Pope on Thursday.

GovTech Polska, the Polish government's technology agency, has launched a virtual edition of the largest stationary hackathon in Europe, HackYeah Online, with the aim of combatting the effects of the coronavirus epidemic, GovTech Polska has said.

A Szczecin archaeologist has made a chilling discovery in Turkey: some of the residents of the ancient town she is studying may have been buried in their own homes.

A clever new app can determine a patient’s medical condition simply by registering changes in voice patterns.

Professor Bartosz Grzybowski and his team have shown the world how to produce HCQ, a medicine used to treat COVID-19, from inexpensive compounds, through the use of his Chematica computer program.

A group of school children and their teachers from Gdynia have won an international Hackathon competition to help people during the coronavirus crisis. 

A woman suffering from coronavirus has given birth to a healthy baby girl.

A team of doctors is flying out to Italy today to help the country in its fight against coronavirus. 

In today’s weekend Debrief, a short update and some musings from Warsaw.

With the coronavirus putting an end to children being told to leave their computers alone and go outside, the Polish government has started to encourage kids to spend their free time on online.

Poland’s annual competition for the best public toilet design is on a roll again with designers challenged to come up with a design befitting the auspicious surroundings of Łazienki Park in Warsaw.

The Polish government launched on Wednesday a website dedicated to its anti-crisis shield, a package of laws aimed to support Polish companies amid the growing pandemic.

Poland's gas market leader PGNiG has become on April 1 the sole user of the small-scale LNG reloading station in Klaipeda, Lithuania, which means that the Polish company has the exclusive right to use the LNG reloading station located in the Lithuanian seaport.

Poland's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reached 2.9 percent in February 2020, unchanged from January, Eurostat, the EU's statistical office reported on Wednesday.

The Polish general government deficit reached 0.7 percent of the country's GDP in 2019, which compares to a 0.2 percent deficit in the previous year, the Central Statistical Office said in a preliminary estimate on Wednesday.

Preliminary analyses show that Poland's unemployment will rise from about 5.5 percent in February to 9-10 percent at the end of this year due to the coronavirus crisis, Family and Labour Minister Marlena Malag told Polish Radio 24 on Wednesday.

Kamil Stoch of Poland won the World Cup ski jumping competition in Lillehammer, Norway, on Tuesday, and advanced to the top spot in the Raw Air series ranking.

All upcoming soccer games in Poland will be played in empty stadiums because of the coronavirus outbreak, the Polish Football Association (PZPN) announced in a communique on Tuesday.

The 2020 World Half Marathon Championships planned for March 29 in Gdynia, a port city on the Baltic coast of Poland, have been postponed until October 17 due to the coronavirus threat.

Michał Kiełbasiński from Łódź, central Poland, has become the first Pole ever to complete the Asnes Expedition Amundsen ski race which covers 100km of treacherous arctic terrain across central Norway by himself. 

A man in Canada has brought his Polish stepfather’s Atlantic crossing in the 1930s to an international audience with an English translation of his epic yarn.

A clever new app can determine a patient’s medical condition simply by registering changes in voice patterns.

Kristalic, a start-up co-founded by a Pole that has come up with an app that allows users to record meetings, create transcripts and generate graphs and summaries, has attracted $2 million in funding from American investors.

A Polish tech start-up has created a tool for recommending books using artificial intelligence.

An innovative start-up has scooped top prize at the Polish Development Fund’s ‘School of Pioneers’ awards after debuting a line of virtual reality headsets designed to help children with autism.

A Puławy bio-material firm has won the Chivas Venture 2020 prize for best start-up.

The full film programme, KFF Industry events and a lot of special offers will be available online for the audiences all over Poland!

Fear of the virus has caused old egoisms to reappear in the EU, wrote Olga Tokarczuk, the Polish author who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, in a text for the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Tuesday.

A painting by an award-wining Polish artist will be used to illustrate the cover of a new book of Australian singer Nick Cave’s lyrics.

Poland’s annual competition for the best public toilet design is on a roll again with designers challenged to come up with a design befitting the auspicious surroundings of Łazienki Park in Warsaw.

Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, a man once described as Poland’s “greatest living composer” has died aged 86.

Increasingly cited by the international travel press as one of Northern Europe’s most beautiful cities, an exhibition organized by the Museum of Gdańsk has brought into sharp focus the horror and devastation faced by the city in the aftermath of war.

One of the largest ever hauls of treasure from the Roman period to be found in Poland and the largest ever in the Lublin region has been uncovered in Hrubieszów near Lublin.

One of the largest ever hauls of treasure from the Roman period to be found in Poland and the largest ever in the Lublin region has been uncovered in Hrubieszów near Lublin.

Fifty years ago one of the strangest construction operations began in Warsaw.

On March 27-28, 1945, in a villa in Pruszków, the NKVD arrested sixteen leaders of the Polish underground in what has been described as one of the greatest tragedies to befall the Polish state.