A staff member works at a mobile coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test centre in Warsaw, Poland November 27, 2020. Picture taken November 27, 2020. REUTERS/Jakub Stezycki
WARSAW (Reuters) - Waldemar Witecki from the southwestern Polish town of Zagan was a healthy 64-year-old with no pre-existing conditions when he first developed a fever and chills around mid-October.
He was diagnosed with flu, even though he had come into contact with someone with COVID-19. He only get a test 10 days later, by which time he was critically ill. On Nov. 7, three weeks after first showing symptoms, he was dead.
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