Like several countries in the world, Turkey started its vaccination campaign against Covid-19 this week.
At the Cerrahpasa public hospital in Istanbul, nurses and doctors follow one another to receive their injection.
Health personnel are indeed the first people to be vaccinated.
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca himself set an example by getting vaccinated live on television on Wednesday, January 13, followed Thursday by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Minister also announced that more than 200,000 workers in the health sector had already received their dose of CoronaVac.
This Chinese vaccine, which can be easily stored and transported at a temperature of between 2 and 8 ° C, has also given rise to controversy: CoronaVac is more than 90% effective, according to a preliminary Turkish study, while Brazilian studies and Indonesian estimate this rate at only 50% and 65% respectively.
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The Dean of the Faculty of Cerrahpasa Hospital brushes aside this controversy.
"We are faced with an alternative: getting vaccinated or catching Covid-19, and I believe that people will prefer to be vaccinated," said Dr Sait Gönen.
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