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Over 51.5 million COVID-19 shots administered in Poland: gov't data

30.01.2022 10:45
A total of 51,540,979 coronavirus vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 112,210 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Sunday.
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Public health authorities said that 17,963 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Sunday morning.

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

As of Sunday, Poland, a country of around 38 million, had injected over 22.3 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 21.7 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.

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 Sunday reported 48,251 new coronavirus infections and 23 more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 4,852,677 and fatalities to 105,161.

Children aged 11 to 15 were on Friday 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.

The booster shot is administered at least five months after full vaccination, using Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines.

By Sunday, a total of 9,977,185 booster shots had been administered, government data showed.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl