Turkey to buy 50 million doses of Russian Sputnik V vaccine
Turkey to buy 50 million doses of Russian Sputnik V vaccine
Ankara, Apr 28 (Prensa Latina) Turkey will buy 50 million doses of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V against Covid-19, announced on Wednesday the Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca.
The deal, which will start in May, will take six months to materialize, Koca detailed at a press conference.
Acknowledging difficulties in the availability of other preparations during the next two months, which will be resolved later, the Minister said that the time between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech (American-German) drug had been extended from six to eight weeks.