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Over 6.6 million booster COVID-19 shots administered in Poland: gov't data

02.01.2022 12:30
A total of 6,674,483 coronavirus booster shots have been administered in Poland so far, with 46,989,488 administered overall by the end of December, officials announced on Sunday.
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Public health authorities said that 17,139 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Sunday morning.

As of Sunday, in Poland, a country of around 38 million, more than 21 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.

The European Commission last week granted conditional marketing approval to the Nuvaxovid COVID‑19 vaccine developed by Novavax, the fifth COVID-19 vaccine authorised for use in adults across the European Union.

Poland on Sunday reported 7,179 new coronavirus infections and 33 more deaths related to COVID-19.

The country this month launched a COVID-19 vaccination drive for children between the ages of five and 11.

At the start of last month, third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were made available to all adults across the nation.

For those under 50, the booster shot is administered at least six months after full vaccination, using Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines.

For people aged over 50, the minimum recommended interval is five months, under rules recently announced by public health authorities.

Health Minister Adam Niedzielski this month said that Poland would introduce compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations for healthcare workers, teachers and law enforcement personnel from March 1.

Roughly one in three Poles is in favour of a plan to introduce compulsory vaccination against COVID-19 for all groups of the population, a recent survey has found.

Meanwhile, 46.7 percent of those polled opposed such a step, according to a report by the Rzeczpospolita newspaper.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl