Turkey will sign a contract within a few days to buy at least 20 million dosages of the Covid-19 candidate vaccine from Sinovac Biotech from China, and Ankara is also in talks to buy boxes of Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines.
According to the Minister of Health, Fahrettin Koca, they will be able to obtain at least 10 million doses of Chinese vaccine by December and will increase that number. In addition, the contract will be signed in the nearest period.
In this regard, Turkey will be the second buyer of Chinese vaccines after Brazil.
To everyone's knowledge, preliminary experimental results show that the experimental Covid-19 Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine induces immediate immune response, but the levels of antibodies produced are lower than in people who have recovered from Covid-19.
In addition, CoronaVac and 4 other experimental vaccines developed in China are currently in final ranking tests to determine their effectiveness.
As such, Turkey is in negotiations to buy other vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna after obtaining graduation.
In addition, the amount that can be given to Turkey is as much as 1 million. In addition, they have been holding regular talks to get 25 million doses of vaccine in the next year starting January.
Although several countries including Turkey have conducted tests for the experimental Sinovac vaccine, Brazil is currently the only country that has agreed to accept the dosage. The State of Sao Paulo will start importing 46 million dos this week.
In a statement today, Turkish Airlines said that its cargo airline company Turkish Cargo had delivered the vaccine delivery from Beijing to Sao Paolo.
