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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The first shipment of the Covid-19 vaccine from the Chinese company Sinovac Biontech to Turkey has been delayed. This happened after the increase in patients with Covid-19 in the Chinese capital and the discovery of cases in the Customs and Excise of the city.
Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said deliveries were delayed by one to two days. Turkey has previously agreed to buy 50 million doses of the vaccine called CoronaVax and awaits delivery of the first 3 million doses this Monday (12/28/2020).
“Due to the Covid-19 alarm in Beijing and the Covid-19 case at Beijing Customs, mobility at Customs was temporarily suspended. Therefore, the arrival of our vaccines, which should have been shipped after operations customs, it will be delayed between 1 and 2 days, “Koca said in a statement. Twitter.
It is not yet known whether this increase in cases also affected the delivery of the vaccine to several other countries. As is well known, Brazil and Indonesia also buy the Sinovac vaccine.
Previously, Beijing tightened social restrictions on Covid-19. The holiday jumped the number of local cases for four consecutive days, on Sunday (12/27/2020).
All districts of Beijing must enter “emergency” mode. Several of the housing complexes and settlements where the infection was found are sealed.
Shunyi district, where the average number of cases is found, claims to have declared “wartime fashion”. It has even tested 800,000 of its citizens on Saturday.
This is called close contact with past cases. Even two towns have beenemergency shutdown.
Meanwhile, the Chaoyang District, neighboring Shunyi, tested 231,413 people in three neighborhoods. Some who have not received test results cannot leave home.
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