The Latest: Poland sends vaccines for its diplomats in India
By The Associated PressApril 26, 2021 GMT
WARSAW, Poland Poland is sending vaccines this week to have its diplomats in India immunized against COVID-19.
A Polish diplomat was evacuated Sunday from New Delhi in serious condition, together with his sick pregnant wife and four children, and brought to hospitals in Warsaw.
The government official in charge of the inoculation program, Michal Dworczyk, said Monday that the plane that went to transport the family brought supplies of oxygen and related equipment to the Polish Embassy in India and that some of these supplies have already been shared with other diplomatic missions in New Delhi, where some diplomats are sick. He didn’t specify the missions.
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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Alexei Yerkhov was the first one to get the shot
ANKARA, April 21. /TASS/. Inoculation of staff of the Russian Embassy in Turkey with the Sputnik V preparation began in Ankara on Wednesday, the diplomatic mission told journalists.
Read also On April 21, the embassy launched inoculation of staff of the diplomatic mission. The personnel is inoculated with the Russian Gam-COVID-Vac preparation, widely known as Sputnik V, developed by Russia’s Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, the embassy said. Among the first ones to get a jab was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkey Alexei Yerkhov, the mission informed.
Turkey approves production of Russia s Sputnik V vaccine
Turkey has approved the production of Russia s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the Yeni Safak newspaper reported on Monday, citing member of the Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board Afsin Emre Kayipmaz. Turkey carried out vaccine production research and a company involved in the process was granted permission upon request, the newspaper quoted the expert as saying, according to TASS.
According to Kayipmaz, a Sputnik V vaccine dose will cost about $10, which is similar to the price tag of China’s Sinovac. Although prices are similar, domestic production will eliminate external dependence, he said.
On January 23, a Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) spokesperson told TASS that agreements had been reached with a leading Turkish pharmaceutical company on Sputnik V vaccine production in Turkey and the technology transfer process had begun. On January 25, Chairman of the Board of Turkey’s VisCoran Ilac Sanayii A. S.