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Over 36.3 million COVID-19 shots administered in Poland: gov't data

02.09.2021 11:30
A total of 36,335,572 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 43,348 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Thursday.
A Warsaw prison inmate receives a COVID-19 shot as part of the national vaccination effort.
A Warsaw prison inmate receives a COVID-19 shot as part of the national vaccination effort.Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka

Public health authorities said that 14,862 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Thursday morning.

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

As of ThursdayPoland had injected over 19.3 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 18.8 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 Thursday reported 390 new coronavirus infections and seven more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 2,889,412 and fatalities to 75,367.

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Source: IAR, gov.pl