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Nearly 16.5 million Poles fully vaccinated for COVID-19: gov't data

21.07.2021 11:10
A total of 33,083,693 COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 151,816 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Wednesday.
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Public health authorities said that 13,484 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, a total of 72,996 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.

As of Wednesday, Poland had injected more than 17.8 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while over 16.4 million people had been fully inoculated, health ministry data showed.

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

Poland on Wednesday reported 124 new coronavirus infections and three more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 2,881,718 and fatalities to 75,222.

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Source: IAR, gov.pl