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 The latest agreement includes an option for 30 million extra doses,
which would bring the total number of doses to be supplied to Turkey
to 120 million, the drugmakers said
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GNX9bPMQt&default-theme=true in a joint statement.
All of the doses will be delivered in 2021, the companies added.
A deal for 120 million doses would be enough to inoculate 60 million
people, a big portion of Turkey's more than 80 million population.
The country, which has been using vaccines from China's Sinovac
Biotech and Pfizer/BioNTech, last month expected procurement to pick
up pace in May, with the expected delivery of a shipment of Russia's
Sputnik V vaccine.
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 Turkey has so far administered
at least 26,537,163 doses of COVID vaccines,
which is enough to vaccinate about 16% of its
population, according to a Reuters tally.
(https://tmsnrt.rs/2RqiZc0)
(Reporting by Manojna Maddipatla in Bengaluru;
Editing by Aditya Soni)
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