As prospective vaccines make headlines worldwide, Turkey plans to start administering vaccines against the novel coronavirus as soon as this month, the country’s health minister said on Tuesday.
“10 MILLION VACCINE DOSES TO BE PROVIDED THIS MONTH”
“Relating to the vaccines, we want to start intensely in December,” Fahrettin Koca told reporters at the parliament.
Koca noted that at least 10 million, but probably roughly 20 million, vaccine doses would be procured in December, along with 20 million doses in January and another 10 million in February.
Turkey’s science committee is preparing plans to start vaccinating health workers on Dec. 11, he said. They include high-risk healthcare workers and medium-risk volunteers.
Vaccines are being administered to volunteers at 25 centers across 12 provinces, with the overall test sample to total 12,450.