"Hopefully, we will contribute to bringing the life back to how it used to be," said Karolina from Lodz, who came to a local vaccination centre while walking her dog.
She said one of the things that convinced her was the fact that it was a single-dose vaccine.
The health ministry did not respond to a Reuters request for information on how many vaccines were administered over the weekend. Centres will remain open until 6 p.m.
Last week Poland administrated 1.6 million doses, for a total of nearly 12 million since vaccinations began. Nearly 3 million Poles, 7,7% of the population, have been fully vaccinated.
In total, the country of 38 million has reported 2,805,756 cases and 68,105 deaths.
Reuters
Poles give up grilling and drinking to queue for the J&J jab
Image: Dawid Zuchowicz/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERS
For Poles, the May long weekend is usually a time for grilling, socialising and drinking. But in the middle of a pandemic, thousands decided to stand in the rain to get a Johnson & Johnson jab instead.
Queues snaked around street corners in cities like Warsaw, Krakow and Wroclaw, with some lining up as early as 1 a.m., according to media reports, as the government offered the one-dose vaccine for all comers aged 36 or over.
The campaign comes as Poland has endured a third wave of the pandemic, with new cases topping 30,000 a day and almost 1,000 daily deaths.
"Hopefully, we will contribute to bringing the life back to how it used to be," said Karolina from Lodz, who came to a local vaccination centre while walking her dog.
She said one of the things that convinced her was the fact that it was a single-dose vaccine.
The health ministry did not respond to a Reuters request for information on how many vaccines were administered over the weekend. Centres will remain open until 6 p.m.
Last week Poland administrated 1.6 million doses, for a total of nearly 12 million since vaccinations began. Nearly 3 million Poles, 7,7% of the population, have been fully vaccinated.
In total, the country of 38 million has reported 2,805,756 cases and 68,105 deaths.
Reuters
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