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Over 18.7 million Poles fully vaccinated for COVID-19: gov't data

30.08.2021 10:40
A total of 36,194,405 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 20,323 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Monday.
A temporary COVID-19 vaccination site at a high school in Warsaw.
A temporary COVID-19 vaccination site at a high school in Warsaw. Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak

Public health authorities said that 14,751 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Monday morning.

Meanwhile, a total of 391,290 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.

As of MondayPoland had injected over 19.2 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 18.7 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 151 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 2,888,385, while the death toll stands at 75,340.

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Source: IAR, gov.pl