Former Polish president, Solidarity leader Walesa has COVID

Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity trade union leader who played a leading role in the fall of Communism, has the coronavirus, he said on Friday. Originally a shipyard electrician in the northern port city of Gdansk, Walesa became a symbol of the historic changes that ended the Cold War, leading the Solidarity trade union movement which brought about the switch to a free-market economy in 1989. 'I can't believe it ... I am infected,' the 78-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate wrote on Facebook.