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ANKARA: Delivery of the first shipment of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine from China to Turkey has been postponed “1-2 days” due to a case of coronavirus at Beijing customs, the minister of Turkish health, Fahrettin Koca. .
Turkey agreed to buy 50 million doses of CoronaVac from Sinovac and expected the first delivery of 3 million doses on Monday. It will also purchase 4.5 million doses of the vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pifzer, with the option of receiving 30 million more doses later.
“Due to the COVID-19 alarm in Beijing and a case of COVID-19 at Beijing customs, mobility at customs has been temporarily suspended. For this reason, the arrival of our vaccines, which were supposed to leave later Customs operations, it will be one to two days late, “Koca said on Twitter.
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