“All tests of the Chinese vaccine have been successfully passed, preliminary work has been completed.
We are confident in the effectiveness of this vaccine.
If nothing interferes, the vaccine will be sent from China to Turkey on the night from Sunday to Monday, "RIA Novosti quotes the minister.
According to him, Turkey plans to vaccinate in four stages.
“First it will be passed by doctors and those at risk, at the first stage it will cover 9 million people,” he added.
The head of the Ministry of Health said that the country expects to receive 50 million doses of the vaccine by the end of February.
“We will be able to do 1.5-2 million vaccinations a day,” he said.
In addition, Koca said that the Turkish authorities plan to purchase 4.5 million doses of vaccines produced by Pfizer and BioNTech by the end of March.
Earlier, Ankara said that Turkey intends to purchase a Chinese vaccine against coronavirus infection.
In early December, the Turkish Ministry of Health reported that they were starting research on the Russian vaccine.