An aide reported Tuesday that Lech Walesa, Poland's former president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, was hospitalised with a severe case of COVID-19, ABC News reported.
Walesa's Facebook page shows him in a hospital bed wearing an oxygen mask and the statement "I have been hit by Covid." Walesa, according to his aide, Marek Kaczmar, is very ill but receiving good treatment in a hospital in Gdansk, the Baltic port city where he lives.
It's Walesa's second COVID match.
Beginning in 1980, Walesa led Poland's pro-democracy Solidarity movement, which nine years later resulted in the peaceful demise of communism in Poland and spurred other countries to reject Moscow's dominance.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. He served as democratic Poland's first popularly elected president from 1990 until 1995.
