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A scandal in Poland has been caused by the extraordinary vaccination of the coronavirus by several public figures who would not yet have the right to do so, including Leszek Miller MEP, former head of government, as well as several actors. The case is under investigation, writes MTI.
The extraordinary vaccines came to light after Leszek Miller, a left-wing politician from the Democratic Alliance (SLD), told Twitter last Thursday that he had received the first dose of the vaccine the day before.
On that day, the Warsaw Medical University (WUM), where one of the designated vaccination sites operates, said that “additional vaccines” had been used to vaccinate, among others, 18 actors and other well-known personalities from the world of culture. . Vaccinated celebrities, according to WUM, have agreed to participate in the vaccination promotion campaign. The names of the artists were not released by the clinic, but on social media, for example, Krystyna Janda, an actress also known for Andrzej Wajda’s films, who often criticizes the current government, denounced their vaccination. Edward Miszczak, director of TVN’s commercial television program, who was also critical of the government, confirmed his vaccination, among others.
However, the Polish authorities managing vaccine stocks denied that WUM had received a shipment beyond the vaccination program, and Michal Dworczyk, head of the Polish Prime Minister’s Office, stressed that none of the artists in the promotion program of vaccination, they were not asked to be included in the campaign.
The Polish state health insurance company NFZ will launch an investigation into the extraordinary vaccines on Monday. Polish Deputy Justice Minister Michal Wos announced on Sunday night that he would initiate legal proceedings against the WUM rector in connection with the scandal.
As part of the vaccination program in Poland, the so-called “zero group” (health workers and their families and parents of premature babies born in the hospital) have been vaccinated since the end of December, and more than 50,000 received the first dose of BioNTech-Pfizer on Monday. Of the politicians, only those who are also doctors are vaccinated.
Vaccination of the next priority group will begin in mid-January, including people over 65, law enforcement officers and teachers.
The Polish government has a sixty million dose contract within the European Union program to vaccinate thirty million people, or practically the adult population of the country. 1.5 million servings are expected to be delivered by the end of January. Shipments from the German-American company Moderna are expected after the German-American vaccine BioNTech-Pfizer, which could mean about 800,000 more doses in the first quarter of the year, Michal Dworczyk said in an interview Monday.
In a press conference later on Monday, Dworczyk also mentioned a third vaccine made by the German company CureVac, of which, if licensed at the EU level, 400,000 doses are expected by the end of the first quarter. By the end of March, 2.9 million Poles could be vaccinated, according to Dworczyk.
A total of 11 million people in groups zero and first are eligible for vaccination. Out of group zero of about a million people, about half a million have applied so far, Dworczyk said. He confirmed that so far 670,000 doses of vaccine have been received in Poland, vaccination will be carried out at more than 6,000 vaccination sites across the country.
According to data from the Ministry of Health this Monday, 4,432 new coronavirus infections were registered in one day in Poland, which has a population of almost 38 million. Eight people died specifically from Covid-19 and 34 died from the coexistence of Covid-19 and other diseases. Daily infection data topped 10,000 in the second half of last week, a decrease on Monday may be related to fewer virus tests at the end of the week.
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