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Over 36.2 million COVID-19 shots administered in Poland: gov't data

31.08.2021 10:40
A total of 36,232,370 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 32,513 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Tuesday.
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Public health authorities said that 14,781 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Tuesday morning.

Meanwhile, a total of 391,290 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.

As of TuesdayPoland had injected over 19.25 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 18.75 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 Tuesday reported 285 new coronavirus infections and five more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 2,888,670 and fatalities to 75,345.

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Source: IAR, gov.pl