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Over 31 million COVID-19 shots administered in Poland: gov't data

09.07.2021 11:31
A total of 31,004,510 COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 252,444 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Friday.
Polands Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks during an event to promote COVID-19 vaccination on Thursday.
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks during an event to promote COVID-19 vaccination on Thursday.Photo: PAP/Przemysław Piątkowski

Public health authorities said that 12,966 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Friday morning.

Meanwhile, a total of 53,848 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.

As of Friday, Poland had injected over 17.3 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 14.7 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 Friday reported 76 new coronavirus infections and 17 more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 2,880,670 and fatalities to 75,152.

(gs/pk)

Source: IAR, gov.pl