A China-made vaccine for coronavirus will be administered in Turkey in only a matter of days.
The Sinovac vaccine will be administered first and foremost to health care workers starting from the end of December.
COUNTRY TO RECEIVE 20M DOSES SINOVAC VACCINE
Speaking after meeting with Turkey’s coronavirus task force, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca shared the detailed plan based on which 50 million doses of the vaccine will be administered.
The first batch of 20 million doses will be received in December and January. The second batch of 10 million doses will arrive in February.
Turkey is open to procuring vaccines from other companies after February. The country needs a total of 100 million doses within three months. Turkish officials are in touch with Pfizer and AstraZeneca for procuring the vaccines.
If studies prove the Russian vaccine to be safe, then it could also be an option.
Turkey wants to receive the maximum amount of doses as soon as possible to create herd immunity. Public health laboratories and the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency laboratories will evaluate the vaccines for about a fortnight.