Public health authorities said that the daily number of COVID-19 vaccinations across the country totaled 179,427. They added that 17,528 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the jabs by Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile, a total of 743,048 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.
As of Wednesday, Poland, a country of around 38 million, had injected more than 22 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while nearly 21.5 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.
The European Commission last month granted conditional marketing approval to the Nuvaxovid COVID‑19 vaccine developed by Novavax, the fifth COVID-19 vaccine authorised for use in adults across the European Union.
Poland on Wednesday reported 30,586 new coronavirus infections and 375 more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 4,373,718 and fatalities to 103,062.
The country last month launched a COVID-19 vaccination drive for children between the ages of five and 11.
At the start of November, third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were made available to all adults across the nation.
The booster shot is administered at least five months after full vaccination, using Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines.
By Wednesday, a total of 8,775,234 booster shots had been administered, government data showed.
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski told reporters on Wednesday that children aged 12 to 17 would soon be given the green light to receive their COVID-19 booster shots as the country enters a fifth wave of the pandemic.
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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl