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Coronavirus slams Poland's already-troubled coal industry

by Associated Press
| July 8, 2020 12:03 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The coronavirus has ripped through Poland's coal mines, where men descend deep underground in tightly packed elevators and work shoulder-to-shoulder to extract the source of 75% of the nation’s electrical power.

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