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Over 9.4 million COVID-19 booster shots administered in Poland: gov't data

25.01.2022 12:30
A total of 50,795,046 coronavirus vaccine shots, including more than 9.4 million booster doses, have been administered in Poland so far, officials announced on Tuesday.
Young people aged 16 and 17 were on Tuesday given the green light to sign up for COVID-19 booster shots as Poland enters a fifth wave of the pandemic.
Young people aged 16 and 17 were on Tuesday given the green light to sign up for COVID-19 booster shots as Poland enters a fifth wave of the pandemic.Photo: PAP/Łukasz Gągulski

Public health authorities said that the daily number of COVID-19 vaccinations across the country totaled 114,717. They added that 17,805 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the jabs by Tuesday morning.

Meanwhile, a total of 743,048 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.

As of Tuesday, Poland, a country of around 38 million, had injected more than 22.2 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while over 21.6 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 Tuesday reported 36,995 new coronavirus infections and 252 more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 4,584,360 and fatalities to 104,097.

Young people aged 16 and 17 were on Tuesday given the green light to sign up for COVID-19 booster shots as the country enters a fifth wave of the pandemic.

Poland 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 Tuesday, a total of 9,435,658 booster shots had been administered, government data showed.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl