Turkey to buy Chinese COVID-19 candidate vaccine doses, in talks with Pfizer

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November 19, 2020 A volunteer is injected with an experimental Chinese coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in Kocaeli ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey will sign a contract within days to buy at least 20 million doses of a COVID-19 candidate vaccine from China’s Sinovac Biotech, the health minister was cited as saying, adding that Ankara was also in talks to buy doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine. “We will be able to procure at least 10 million doses of the Chinese vaccine in December. We want to increase this number. It will be just as much in January, too,” Health Minister Fahrettin...