Poland’s former President Lech Walesa, 80, hospitalized with COVID-19

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

A publish on Walesa’s Fb reveals him on a hospital mattress with an oxygen masks on, with a caption that claims “I’ve been hit by Covid.” The aide, Marek Kaczmar, informed Polish media that Walesa is severely ailing, however underneath excellent care in a hospital in Gdansk, the Baltic port metropolis the place he lives.

It’s Walesa’s second bout of COVID.

Beginning in 1980, Walesa spearheaded Poland’s pro-democracy Solidarity motion that 9 years later led to the peaceable ouster of communism from Poland and impressed different international locations to shed Moscow’s domination.

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