ANKARA, Jan 20 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey’s vaccination campaign extended to people staying and working in care and nursing homes, and citizens over 90.
The state-run TRT news broadcaster released footage of the elderly and their caregivers, getting their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, developed by China’s Sinovac at the nursing homes yesterday.
The elderly over 90 also received their vaccines at home.
In the first phase of the vaccination campaign, since Jan 14, 830,000 health workers have been vaccinated and their inoculation will be completed by today (Jan 20), according to Turkish Health Minister, Fahrettin Koca.
Turkey confirmed yesterday, 6,818 new cases, including 761 symptomatic patients, raising the total number in the country to 2,399,781, according to the health ministry.
Death toll from the virus rose by 167 to 24,328, while total recoveries climbed to 2,277,987, after 7,218 more recovered in the last 24 hours.
The rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients stands at 5.1 percent and the number of seriously ill patients is 2,162.
A total of 175,133 tests were conducted over the past day, bringing the overall number of tests to 27,698,556.
The Turkish authorities have approved the emergency use of the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine.– NNN-ANADOLU
