Poland’s former President Lech Walesa, 80, hospitalized with COVID-19 – The Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland (AP) Lech Walesa, Polands 80-year-old former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been hospitalized with a bad case of COVID-19, an aide said Tuesday.

A post on Walesas Facebook shows him on a hospital bed with an oxygen mask on, with a caption that says I have been hit by Covid. The aide, Marek Kaczmar, told Polish media that Walesa is seriously ill, but under good care in a hospital in Gdansk, the Baltic port city where he lives.

Its Walesas second bout of COVID.

Starting in 1980, Walesa spearheaded Polands pro-democracy Solidarity movement that nine years later led to the peaceful ouster of communism from Poland and inspired other countries to shed Moscows domination.

In 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1990-95 he served as democratic Polands first popularly elected president.

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