The number of COVID-19 vaccines Turkey has administered since the start of the inoculation drive in mid-January has surpassed 90 million doses, APA reports citing Hurriyet.
Nearly 36 million people have been fully vaccinated while some 47 million have been given their first doses of the jab against the deadly virus.
Turkey is presently also giving the third doses, while recently having allowed people who were inoculated with Sinovac’s coronavirus vaccine to take additional Pfizer/BioNTech doses to help ease travel to countries that have not approved the Chinese shot.
Even though the country is administering nearly 1 million doses of the vaccine, the death toll from the virus has been on the rise for some time now, remaining above 200 since Aug. 19, while the daily COVID-19 cases have been hovering around at 20,000.
Experts say almost all patients in hospitals’ intensive care units are unvaccinated.
Some 15.5 million people have not yet received their first doses even though they are entitled to have one, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca wrote on Twitter on Aug. 24, reminding that schools are set to reopen next month.
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