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By the end of this year Poland will receive 300,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine, after which 300,000 vaccines will arrive in Poland on a weekly basis, said the head of the prime minister’s office (KPRM) on Sunday.
“We are after this great test, which was taking delivery of the first transport and the vaccination of 10,000 people can begin,” KPRM head and government plenipotentiary for the vaccination programme Michal Dworczyk told a Sunday press conference.
He announced that by the end of this year 300,000 doses of vaccine will have arrived to Poland. “Then, on a weekly basis there will be 300,000 doses delivered to Poland and, as other companies register their products, this number will continue to increase,” said Dworczyk.
He explained that, unlike the first transport of 10,000 vaccines that reached Poland by road, subsequent transports will arrive in Warsaw by airplane. The vaccines will be taken to the Material Reserves Agency from where they will be transferred by pharmaceutical wholesalers to 509 nodal hospitals.
“After the completion of ‘group zero’ vaccinations, we will start vaccinating not only in these 509 hospitals, but in total there will be over 9,000 teams working in every municipality throughout Poland, which will vaccinate Poles,” said Dworczyk.
Dworczyk added that ‘group one’ vaccinations, including senior citizens, teachers and the uniformed services, are expected to commence in the second half of January, although he pointed out that “on the other hand, we are very careful with specifying specific dates, because there are some variables that we, as a government, have no influence over.”
He noted that the vaccination system currently in preparation should be fully operational from Jan 15, at that point in time a helpline will also be in place, thanks to which it will be possible to register, and all vaccination points throughout the country will also be operational.
Dworczyk also announced that another TV spot informing and encouraging vaccinations will start on Sunday, and a billboard campaign will start on Monday. Every day there will be new elements that will serve one purpose, to provide reliable information to every Pole about the vaccine and the vaccination process.
“And as a consequence, this will convince us as a society that only vaccination can give hope and the possibility of returning to the normality we remember from before the pandemic.” said Dworczyk.
