Poland's ex-president Solidarity leader Walesa has COVID
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s former president and former Solidarity pro-democracy movement leader, Lech Walesa, said Friday that he has COVID-19.
The 78-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate said on Twitter that he was surprised to find out he is infected despite the three vaccination doses he has received.
“I can't believe it: I received 3 shot, .... (but) I'm infected. (I have a) headache, I can't warm up my body. I feel like my flesh is tearing away from the bones,” Walesa wrote.
“After this painful lesson I will never separate from my mask,” Walesa wrote.
Walesa was fitted with a pacemaker in 2008 and last year he had a heart surgery.
In the 1980s, Walesa led the nationwide Solidarity movement that eventually toppled Poland’s communist leaders. He served as democratic Poland's first popularly elected president in 1990-95.
Walesa is a strong critic of Poland's current right-wing government.
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