Over 300,000 Covid-19 vaccination doses should arrive in Poland around the end of the year, and a further 300,000 a week later, the head of the prime minister's office said on Tuesday.
The first 10,000 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine should arrive in Poland on December 26, and the first 10,000 people should be vaccinated a day later, if the European Medicines Agency approves it on Monday, the head of the Prime Minister's Office has said.
The Polish government spokesman has confirmed December 27-28 as a realistic date to start Covid-19 vaccination programme conditioned on the delivery of the vaccines to the country.
Consultants from the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination hotline have received over 4,000 phone calls during the help-lines' first day of operation, a National Health Fund spokeswoman has told PAP.
If a decision on permitting coronavirus vaccinations is taken before Christmas then just after the holidays the first batch of 10,000 doses may appear in Poland and the health authorities are ready to distribute them, the health minister said on Thursday.
The government’s commissioner for the National Vaccination Programme told a press conference that over 80 percent of Poland's municipalities have registered medical centres that will carry out vaccinations against Covid-19.
Healthcare workers will be first in line for the National Vaccination Programme at the “zero stage”, the government’s commissioner for the programme told a press conference.
Aleksandra Ostańska from Poznań who currently works at a residential care facility in the UK has urged others to get vaccinated saying “listen to doctors, rely on science.”
The goverment at its cabinet meeting on Tuesday approved the National Vaccination Programme, the prime minister announced.
Next year will be a year of vaccinations against the coronavirus, the Polish health minister has said, adding that if population resistance is achieved by the end of 2021, it will be possible to say a certain level of success has been reached.
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