"According to the agreement, the supply will amount to 550 thousand doses of vaccines, which will be delivered to Turkey, as expected, either by the end of the year or in early January," he wrote on Twitter.

According to him, 4.5 million doses of the vaccine will be delivered to Turkey by the end of March.

The minister added that the agreement provides for the opportunity for Turkey to purchase up to 30 million doses of the vaccine under the same conditions.

BIONTECH aşısı ile ilgili anlaşmanın imzalanmak üzere olduğunu dün sizlerle paylaşmıştım.

Bu gece 04.30 itibariyle anlaşma imzalandı.

Yapılan anlaşmaya göre bu yıl için ayrılan, depolarda hazır beklediğini PROF.

DR.

UĞUR ŞAHİN hocamızın açıkladığı doz miktarı 550.000 dozdur.

- Dr.

Fahrettin Koca (@drfahrettinkoca) December 25, 2020

On the eve of Koca said that the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine from the Chinese company SinoVac would be sent to Turkey. 

In early December, the Turkish Ministry of Health reported that they were starting research on the Russian vaccine.