Over 25 million COVID-19 shots administered in Poland: gov't data

A total of 25,058,534 COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 355,394 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Wednesday.

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Public health authorities said that 11,020 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, a total of 25,038 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.

As of Wednesday, Poland had injected around 15.66 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 10.2 million people had been fully inoculated, health ministry data showed.

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

Children aged 12 to 15 have been given the green light to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in Poland as the country ramps up its inoculation campaign.

Poland on Wednesday reported 241 new coronavirus infections and 62 more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 2,878,061 and fatalities to 74,688.

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Source: IAR, gov.pl