Poland expects up to 10m COVID shots supplied a month: health minister

Poland's health minister has said his country could receive deliveries of up to 10 million anti-COVID shots a month as it steps up its inoculation campaign.

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Adam Niedzielski said a shortage of shots has so far been the main factor limiting Poland's vaccination drive.

He added that he expected deliveries of 850,000 vaccines a week from drug maker Pfizer alone.

A fresh supply of around 870,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and a separate shipment of about 88,000 doses of the AstraZeneca shot arrived in Poland on Monday, public health officials announced.

Nearly 7.7 million COVID-19 shots in total have been administered in Poland so far, the authorities said.

The same day, Poland reported 12,013 new coronavirus infections and 61 more deaths, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 2,586,647 and fatalities to 58,481.

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Source: PAP/IAR