Turkey authorizes its Covid-19 Turkovac vaccine for emergency use

The Covid-19 vaccine Turkovac received authorization for its “emergency” use in Turkey, the Health Ministry reported on Wednesday.

“Our national vaccine against Covid-19 Turkovac was approved for an emergency use from today “Wednesday, declared Fahrettin Koca, specifying that they will begin the vaccination at the end of next week.

The process to approve the emergency use of this vaccine made from an inactivated virus It was started in November by the Turkish Medicines Agency, which reports to the health ministry, Koca said.

The phase 3 trials They started in June with 40,800 participants in Turkey.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan He welcomed the announcement and said he wants to “share” the vaccine with other countries.

At a summit that brought together dozens of African leaders in Istanbul on Saturday, the Turkish president promised to send 15 million doses to Africa.

The doctor Ates Kara, a member of the Scientific Council of Turkey, told the state agency Anadolu on Sunday that the vaccine was “very effective”, without providing data.

According to the records of the Turkish Ministry of Health, 82.6% of the adult population received at least two doses of the vaccine.

More than 80,000 people died in Turkey from Covid-19, according to a count carried out by the AFP.



Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx

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