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Health Minister Fahrettin Koca answered questions and made statements at Parliament’s Budget and Plan Committee.
Minister Koca, Prof. Dr. Uğur Şahin and Dr. Özlem Türeci said that the license for the vaccine jointly developed by the biotechnology company BioNTech with the US company Pfizer will likely be granted in December.
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Minister of Health, the first batch of 1 million doses that can be administered to Turkey in case of following the introduction of the vaccine, announced in the next year will be 25 million doses. On the other hand, domestic ‘crown’ He announced that the vaccine could be activated in April.
Chinese vaccine tested in Turkey
Fahrettin Koca, ‘Since 10 million vaccines can be received for the Chinese vaccine in December ‘ mentioned and “This figure will also double in January and the contracts will be signed in a few days.” said.
Developed by Chinese Sinavoc Biotech ‘CoronaVac’ The candidate vaccine is in Phase 3 studies, conducted in 25 centers in Turkey and on a voluntary basis.
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If the third phase of the vaccine, which was successful in the second phase trials, is also successful, it is expected to be ready for use in early 2021.
The number of flu vaccines is limited
The health minister said about the application of the influenza vaccine: “Turkey’s supply of flu vaccine last year than one million 300 thousand, but made one million 100 thousand vaccines. The amount we can increase in the flu vaccine is limited. During this period, we increased it to 2.3 million. We have done it to 600 thousand people so far. “
Husband, medical equipment ‘He has been conducting screening tests for five months and no influenza has been found’ also stated.
12 thousand employees
The minister also reiterated the previous recruitment of health personnel, saying: “We are hiring 12 thousand health personnel hired with the central placement to be carried out by ÖSYM according to the KPSS score.”
