COVID ward doctor Łukasz Grabarczyk fears his city of Olsztyn in Poland's north-eastern lake district is starting to experience its worst period of the pandemic, as it becomes the epicentre of the country's third wave.

Józef Pinior, opposition member in communist Poland and former senator has been found guilty of corruption by the District Court in Wrocław. He has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. The court upheld the verdict passed in the first instance. The ruling is now legally binding.

Polish biotech firm Mabion has signed a preliminary agreement to manufacture Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine with financial support from a state-run fund, as the government strives to accelerate its vaccination programme.

Switching energy supplies from fossil fuels to cleaner sources of power will cost Poland an estimated 450 billion zlotys ($120 billion) by 2045, the minister responsible for energy infrastructure said on Wednesday.

Polish Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Wednesday he did not currently recommend using Chinese company Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine because of a lack of data.

Participants of the Open Pension Fund will have two months to decide where to transfer their money - either to the Social Insurance Institute or to the Individual Retirement Pension Account (IKE). According to Business Centre Club expert Dorota Dula, it is too short a period for such an important decision.

The success of Poland's Iga Świątek has helped bring a WTA women's tournament back to the country's coast after an absence of more than 10 years and local fans will get the chance to see her play, the organisers said on Monday.

A court in Płock acquitted three LGBT activists accused of offense against religious feelings. The ruling ends a lawsuit filed by a local parishioner against the three women for placing stickers with an image of Virgin Mary and Jesus with rainbow colors as their halos.

The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that further 7,937 coronavirus infection cases and 216 deaths were confirmed in Poland. Over 50,000 tests coronavirus tests were taken within the last 24 hours. Since the start of the pandemic, Poland has reported a total of 1,719,708 infection cases and 44,008 deaths.

EU's Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that successive amendments to Polish law regulating the country's Council of the Judiciary may stand in violation of the European law. The decision pertains to changes which, according to the European high court, "have removed effective court supervision of Council's decisions regarding nominees for Supreme Court justices".

What happened to Jolanta Brzeska? It's been ten years since the investigators began the search for answers. Her friends and colleagues claim she was murdered after making enemies with property developers. The prosecutor's office has been issuing further opinions, questioning witnesses and collecting evidence. Unfortunately, however, breakthrough is nowhere to be seen.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has talked with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping about buying the Chinese COVID-19 shot, his aide told state-run news agency PAP on Monday, as the country looked for ways to speed up vaccination of its residents.

The Ministry of Health informed on Monday about 4,786 new cases of coronavirus infection and the death of 24 COVID-19 patients. Since the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Poland has reported 1,711,772 infections. President Andrzej Duda talked with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping about buying the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine. Poland's chief COVID-19 advisor said on Monday that in the worst-case scenario, the number of daily infections could go up even by 50-60 percent.

"We receive calls from young people who tell us about their struggle, about their loneliness. Lack of sense of security is apparent. It is strictly connected with social and political climate" - Łukasz Wojtasik of the Empowering Children Foundation told TVN24. Activist Bart Staszewski stresses the importance of reacting when witnessing discrimination, especially aimed at children. The foundation has just launched "LGBT+me" campaign promoting allyship behaviour.

A Polish judge fiercely critical of the government's judicial reforms is immune from prosecution and can work, an appeal court said, contradicting a Supreme Court disciplinary chamber ruling in a sign of divisions in the legal system.

A northeastern region of Poland famed for its lakes, forests and sailing will see a raft of COVID-19 restrictions brought back from Saturday after it became a hotspot for infections, the government said.

Poland is expected to announce new rules this week demanding a negative coronavirus test result to enter the country, Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Monday.

The South African variant of the coronavirus is now present in Poland, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Friday, as the country braces for a third wave of the pandemic.

Poland's main opposition party called on Thursday for changes in the law to allow pregnancies to be terminated on demand.

Poland is seeing the beginning of a third wave of coronavirus infections, a health ministry spokesman said on Friday, as the country posted a large week-on-week increase in daily cases.

Authorities arrested them for live filming protests against President Alexander Lukashenko.

The COVID-19 pandemic is on the rise again in Poland, the health minister said on Tuesday, a worrying turnaround after case numbers stabilised following a second wave of infections last autumn.

Dancing, drinking and fighting marked the easing of some COVID-19 restrictions in Poland over the weekend as tourists, many without masks, let off steam in the ski resort of Zakopane.

We are addressing the following letter to you in connection with the proposed new additional encumbrance, imposed on the media operating on the Polish market, falsely referred to as a “contribution” and introduced under the pretense of support linked to COVID-19.

Poland will use AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine only for people aged 18-60, the Polish prime minister's top aide said on Tuesday, following a recommendation from the country's medical council.

Poland's government put into effect on Wednesday a constitutional court decision banning terminations of pregnancies with foetal defects.

Polish prosecutors critical of government reforms say they are being punished by being reassigned at short notice to posts hundreds of kilometres away - something their employer says is necessary to address pandemic-related staff shortages.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called for the immediate release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Sunday after he was arrested on his return to Moscow, and urged the European Union to respond quickly.

Pope Francis on Sunday accepted the resignation of the head of the Catholic Church in Belarus, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who spent time in exile last year after angering President Alexander Lukashenko.

Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from its PlayStation Store only a week after its debut amid complaints of glitches in the video game created by Poland's CD Projekt.