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Over 18.86 million Poles fully vaccinated for COVID-19: gov't data

03.09.2021 11:00
A total of 36,391,474 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 49,238 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Friday.
A Warsaw prison inmate receives a COVID-19 shot as part of the national vaccination campaign.
A Warsaw prison inmate receives a COVID-19 shot as part of the national vaccination campaign.Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka

Public health authorities said that 14,916 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Friday morning.

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

As of FridayPoland had injected over 19.33 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 18.86 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 349 new coronavirus infections and five more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 2,889,773 and fatalities to 75,372.

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Source: IAR, gov.pl