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Nearly 36 million COVID-19 shots administered in Poland: gov't data

25.08.2021 10:40
A total of 35,917,007 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 47,669 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Wednesday.
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Public health authorities said that 14,458 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, a total of 352,729 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.

As of WednesdayPoland had injected almost 19.1 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 18.5 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.

Poland on Wednesday reported 234 new coronavirus infections and five more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 2,887,270 and fatalities to 75,329.

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Source: IAR, gov.pl