Over 350 thousand vaccine doses administered in Turkey in a day

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Since January 26, 2021, the Health Ministry of Turkey has been sharing the number of COVID-19 vaccines administered across the country on a provisional basis with a regularly updated map.

According to the data shared by the Ministry, as of 7.45 p.m. on June 8, 352 thousand 279 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, either that of Sinovac or Pfizer-BioNTech, were administered in Turkey in 24 hours.

While the number of people who received the first dose was 18 million 113 thousand 715 in total, the number of people who received both doses was 13 million 291 thousand 488 in total. The total number of vaccine doses administered thus far was 31 million 405 thousand 203.

New occupational groups to be vaccinated

In a series of messages on Twitter, Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca has announced that in addition to public and private hospitals, family health centers will start administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Moreover, from Wednesday (today, June 9), musicians, film and TV series production teams in Turkey will be able to get vaccinated without age limit, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has announced on Twitter.

Number of cases by province

Minister Koca has also released the latest weekly infection rates across the country's various regions. Sharing the data for May 29-June 4, he has said that the case numbers are consistently falling.

The biggest drops in the number of cases per 100,000 people were seen in Gümüşhane, Bilecik, Bayburt, Kocaeli and Kırklareli provinces.

The number of cases per 100,000 people was 63.93 in İstanbul, home to nearly one-fifth of Turkey's population, 99.50 in the capital city of Ankara and 41.23 in İzmir on the Aegean, according to Koca.

Vaccination began in Turkey on January 13

The first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in Turkey on January 13, 2021 and Health Minister Fahrettin Koca was the first person to receive the vaccine in Turkey. To date, Turkey has been giving the Sinovac and BioNTech jabs, and signed an agreement for the Sputnik V vaccine.

Nearly 2 billion doses in the world

According to the figures shared by the World Health Organization (WHO), 1 billion 900 million 955 thousand 505 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered across the world as of June 7, 2021.

(KÖ/SD)