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Over 36.5 million COVID-19 shots administered in Poland: gov't data

08.09.2021 11:00
A total of 36,561,654 vaccine shots have been administered in Poland so far, including 31,934 over the last 24 hours, officials announced on Wednesday.
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Public health authorities said that 15,011 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Wednesday morning.

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

As of WednesdayPoland had injected over 19.4 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while almost 19 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 533 new coronavirus infections and 11 more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of cases during the pandemic to 2,891,602 and fatalities to 75,403.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl