Polish volunteers deliver coffee, walk dogs as coronavirus spreads


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  • Saturday, 21 Mar 2020

FILE PHOTO: A temporary emergency room for coronavirus threat is pictured at University Clinical Hospital in Wroclaw, Poland, March 4, 2020. Agencja Gazeta/Krzysztof Cwik via REUTERS

WROCLAW, Poland (Reuters) - Robert Wagner, a community activist in the Polish city of Wroclaw, says delivering coffee and packed lunches to hard-pressed doctors and paramedics is the least he can do as coronavirus spreads across the country.

In Poland, where 439 cases have been confirmed with five deaths, medical staff are working overtime to treat the increasing number of coronavirus patients, and community groups are mobilising to help.

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