Erdogan says 10 mln CoronaVac doses could reach Turkey by weekend

Source :- Newzee

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday(January 22) China had approved delivery of a second consignment of the CoronaVac vaccine and 10 million doses could arrive in Turkey by this weekend.
Turkey has already received an initial consignment of three million doses of the vaccine, produced by Sinovac, and has so far vaccinated more than 1.170 million people, mostly health workers and elderly people.
Some 600,000 people were vaccinated in two days when the rollout began just over a week ago, but the pace later slowed.
Turkey has recorded more than 2.4 million infections and 24,640 deaths due to COVID-19 since March. A rise in cases over the past months led the government to introduce weekday curfews and weekend lockdowns since December.
Daily cases have dropped to around 6,000 in the recent days, from a high of more than 33,000 in early December.