Introduction and objective:
The Covid-19 pandemic limited patients' access to medical services and might have affected decisions regarding calls for emergency medical teams (EMT) due to pain. The aim of the study was analysis of EMT interventions due to pain during the selected period of the pandemic.

Material and methods:
EMT interventions during the period from 1 March- 31 December 2020 were analyzed in terms of the cause of pain, taking into account seasonality and territorial distribution. The results were compared with data from before the pandemic i.e. concerning the same period in 2019.

Results:
Analyzed calls accounted for 28% of the total 2,483,280 interventions in 2020 and 30% of the total 2,777,291 in 2019. Compared to 2019, a decrease was observed in the number of calls for post-traumatic pain, headache, spine/ back pain and extremities. In turn, an increase was noted in the number of calls for abdominal pain, chest pain, pain in other location, burns and bites/stings. Most calls were for post-traumatic pain (37%-39%), chest pain (25%-27%) and abdominal pain (22%-23%). The percentage of calls was the highest in August 2020 (11%), and in June 2019 (10%), in the Warsaw Province – 13% (14% in 2019), whereas the smallest number of calls were observed in April 2020 (8%), in November 2019 (9%), and in the Opole Province (2%).

Conclusions:
1) Regardless of the Covid-19 pandemic, calls due to pain at various sites account for about one-third of all emergency medical teams interventions. 2) The number of emergency medical teams interventions during the initial period of the Covid-19 pandemic and during the period of the highest number of cases decreased in each province. 3) The most common causes of calls were trauma-induced pain, chest pain, and abdominal pain.