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Nearly 35.8 million COVID-19 shots administered in Poland: gov't data

23.08.2021 11:00
A total of 35,824,579 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 16,980 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Monday.
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Public health authorities said that 14,458 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Monday morning.

Meanwhile, a total of 352,729 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.

As of MondayPoland had injected more than 19 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while around 18.46 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 Monday reported 107 new coronavirus infections and no new deaths related to COVID-19. The latest cases bring Poland’s total number of infections during the pandemic to 2,886,805, while the death toll stands at 75,316.

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Source: IAR, gov.pl