ANKARA – More than 700,000 healthcare workers in Turkey have received the first Covid-19 vaccine dose in the first four days of the country's vaccination campaign, the Anadolu Agency reported its Health Ministry as saying.
Turkey started administering the CoronaVac vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech company to healthcare staff last Thursday.
After inoculation of more than one million healthcare workers in Turkey, residents and workers in care and nursing homes, and disabled care facilities will be vaccinated. This priority group will be followed by people aged 65 and over.
The first batch of three million doses of the vaccine arrived in Turkey on December 30.
Two doses of the vaccine will be administered 28 days apart. Those who recover from Covid-19 will not be vaccinated in four to six months following their recovery.
Turkey has been implementing curfews on both weeknights and weekends since last month as part of efforts to curb the spread of the virus.
Earlier this week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that restrictions will be eased gradually as Covid-19 cases have been significantly decreasing recently. – Bernama, January 18, 2021
