Over 17.25 million COVID-19 shots administered in Poland: gov't data

A total of 17,254,902 COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 421,284 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Friday.

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Public health authorities said that 8,964 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Friday morning.

Meanwhile, a total of 16,055 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.

As of Friday, Poland had injected around 12.37 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 5.2 million people had been fully inoculated, health ministry data showed.

ℹ️ Wykonaliśmy 17 254 902 szczepienia

1️⃣ dawką wykonano 12 369 238 szczepień

✅ w pełni zaszczepionych jest 5 222 430 osób (zaszczepieni preparatem J&J oraz 2 dawką innych preparatów)

ℹ️ Zaktualizowany raport znajduje się pod adresem⤵️https://t.co/NMqyTPXfQo pic.twitter.com/6WpeMMVMAX

— #SzczepimySię (@szczepimysie) May 21, 2021

The tally includes two-dose vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca as well as Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine.

More than 1.7 million doses of these four vaccines are expected to be delivered to the country this week, according to officials.

Teens under 18 have been given the green light to sign up for COVID-19 shots in Poland as the country ramps up its inoculation campaign.

Poland on Friday reported 1,679 new coronavirus infections and 191 more deaths, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 2,863,031 and fatalities to 72,691.

(gs/pk)

Source: IAR, gov.pl