or epidemiologically but laboratory testing is inconclusive or not available", were not yet included in the niph–nih instructions. stefan karczmarewicz, writing in polityka, interpreted this as an attempt by authorities to lower the official covid-19 death toll in poland. he argued that there was a policy of limiting the number of sars-cov-2 tests, which together with the exclusion of the icd-10 category u07.2 implied an underestimate of the true covid-19 death toll. niph–nih stated that the omission was unintentional due to the timing, and updated its instructions on 1 april, instructing doctors to also use the u07.2 definition of clinically or epidemiologically classified covid-19 cases. niph–nih stated that the who considered it "irrelevant" to distinguish between u07.1 and u07.2. on 6 april 2020 bartosz fiałek, a polish rheumatologist, claimed that the niph–nih instructions were unclear, and that it appeared that u07.2 was not being used for covid-19 deaths in hospital in which sars-cov-2 tests had not been carried out, nor for people dying of covid-19 in quarantine. starting on 1 april 2020, fatalities which were clinically or epidemiologically diagnosed as covid-19 (u07.2) were also considered as covid-19 deaths by niph–nih. suspected covid-19 deaths in quarantine as of 28 march 2020, people in poland who died in quarantine from suspected covid-19 were not tested post mortem for sars-cov-2. on 21 march 2020, a 45-year-old man who was quarantined in głogów after returning from outside of poland and who had shown covid-19 symptoms was found dead by police. as of 26 march 2020, the prosecutor investigating his death had not decided whether or not to carry out a sars-cov-2 laboratory test on the corpse. the dead body of a 50-year-old woman who returned from germany to konin and felt ill was found by her family on 24 march. główny inspektorat sanitarny (gis, the national health agency) refused to test the corpse for sars-cov-2. as of 27 march 2020, gis had not stated what procedures were in place for post mortem tests. as of 6 april 2020, it was not known if any laboratories in poland were qualified to carry out post-mortem sars-cov-2 tests. unofficial deaths there were several claims of covid-19 deaths unreported by the ministry of health. in early april, warsaw city council stated that there had been 32 covid-19 deaths in warsaw, while official statistics only listed eight. the minister of health stated that the difference was that deaths were officially allocated according to the official places of residence of the deceased. the mayor of warsaw, rafał trzaskowski, stated that the data were carefully checked, and that 18 of the 32 were registered as officially living in warsaw, not eight. disagreement between local media, the head of the kuyavian-pomeranian voivodeship, and gis continued for several days in early april in relation to the 4 april death in a grudziądz hospital of a 64-year-old woman from grudziądz who was sars-cov-2 positive. gazeta pomorska stated that the head of the voivodeship only accepted including the 64-year-old's death in official reports after the newspaper "intervened". as of 8 april 2020, according to gazeta pomorska, the ministry of health still listed only one covid-19 death from grudziądz (that of an 80-year-old), while local branches of the health agency stated zero sars-cov-2 infections from grudziądz in their reports.