Over 60% of Poles want to get vaccinated for COVID-19: survey

More than six in 10 Poles, or 60.9 percent, want to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, a new survey has found.

Frontline healthcare workers are first in line to be inoculated as Poland rolls out a mass vaccination drive to combat the coronavirus. Other priority groups include people over 70, nursing home residents, police, soldiers and teachers.

Photo: PAP/Grzegorz Michałowski

Meanwhile, 28.1 percent have no such plans, according to the survey by pollster IBRiS.

Of this, 16.3 percent are strongly against the idea and 11.8 percent say they are unlikely to get a COVID-19 shot.

The remaining 11 percent are undecided, the study showed, according to a report by Poland's Rzeczpospolita daily.

The survey, commissioned by the daily, was conducted on January 8 and 9 on a sample of 1,100 respondents.

In a previous study by the same researcher a few weeks earlier, the number of those declaring an intention to receive a vaccine was 14 percentage points lower, Rzeczpospolita reported.

Around 6,000 vaccination sites are available to citizens as Poland rolls out its COVID-19 inoculation campaign.

As of Thursday, a total of 1,051,830 vaccine doses had been delivered to the country and more than 400,000 people had received the shots, according to the prime minister's top aide, Michał Dworczyk.

Dziś przekroczyliśmy 400 000 zaszczepionych osób w PL. Łącznie w tym tygodniu zaszczepione zostanie ponad 250 tys. osób. W przyszłym tygodniu ponad 330 tys. pic.twitter.com/wGZjJ6JyI0

— Michał Dworczyk (@michaldworczyk) January 14, 2021

Poland on Thursday reported 9,436 new coronavirus infections and 381 more deaths, bringing its total number of cases to 1,414,362 and fatalities to 32,456.

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Source: PAP, rp.pl