A Catholic priest, Father Klose, prays as he celebrates Palm Sunday Mass in the Church of Holy Virgin Marbach's Ascension in the absence of parishioners due to the coronavirus pandemic on April 5, 2020, in Chorzow, The Upper-Silesian Metropolis, Poland's former epicenter of COVID-19. "This is the second time in my life when I celebrate a mass during which there are no parishioners. The first time occurred almost 40 years ago when martial law was imposed in Poland during communist times" - Father Klose explained. The COVID-19 pandemic in Poland is part of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. The epidemic is believed to have started in November 2019 in China's Wuhan, rapidly affecting more than 200 countries and causing large-scale loss of life, the global economic downturn, and far-reaching social repercussions.