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Turkey Will Purchase 50 Million Sputnik V Vaccines from Russia

  • Turkey signs agreement for 50M doses of Sputnik V vaccine, which will be received in over 6 months starting in May, says Turkish health minister.

    Turkey signs agreement for 50M doses of Sputnik V vaccine, which will be received in over 6 months starting in May, says Turkish health minister. | Photo: Twitter/@anadoluagency

Published 28 April 2021
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Turkey plans to buy 50 million doses of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V against COVID-19, the Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca announced on Wednesday.

The agreement, which will commence in May, will take around six months to materialize, Koca said at a press conference Wednesday.

Acknowledging difficulties in the availability of other vaccines during the next two months, which will be resolved later, he said, the Minister noted that the time between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech (American-German) drug will be extended from six to eight weeks.

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He also announced that in the coming days Turkey will begin third phase clinical trials for one of their homegrown preparations.

Regarding a strain of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus detected in India, the minister said that it has already been detected in at least five people in Istanbul, the country's most populated city.

The cases infected with the Indian strain have been followed closely in Instanbul, Koca indicated without referring to specific complications presented in the patients.

Turkey has reported over 4.71 million COVID-19 cases since the onset of the pandemic, as well as 39,000 deaths.

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