Istanbul, Turkey:
Turkey will obtain its 1st shipment of China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine inside days as preliminary domestic tests showed it was 91% powerful, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca stated on Thursday.
Ankara in the subsequent handful of days will also sign a deal with Pfizer/BioNTech for 4.5 million doses, with the choice to purchase 30 million more from the US pharmaceutical giant and its German companion, Koca stated.
Turkey will initially obtain 3 million doses of Sinovac and have the choice for 50 million more as it starts inoculations subsequent month, beginning with healthcare workers and the most vulnerable.
Koca stated the 1st shipments of the Chinese vaccine will be sent to Turkey on Sunday.
The preliminary tests on 7,371 volunteers in Turkey showed that the Chinese vaccine was 91.25 per cent powerful, despite the fact that phase 3 tests had been nevertheless not full.
Turkey “will be able to vaccinate 1.5 million or even two million people per day,” Koca stated, adding that the “first stage” of vaccinations would cover nine million people today.
The nation of 83 million has officially recorded 19,115 Covid-19 deaths and 2.2 million virus infections.
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