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As many as 6.5 million doses of China's CoronaVac vaccine will be delivered to Turkey on Jan. 25, the country's health minister has announced.

"In line with our purchasing plan, the vaccine shipments to Turkey will continue smoothly," Fahrettin Koca tweeted on Jan. 24.

A warning from AstraZeneca that initial supplies of its COVID vaccinations to Europe will be lower than expected has sparked fresh concern over the rollout of inoculations, forcing some countries to plan for a sharp drop in deliveries.

Russian sovereign wealth fund RDIF said on Jan. 23 it had signed an agreement with Turkey on the production of its Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, the Interfax news agency reported.

RDIF added that it had begun transferring the production technology to Turkey.

According to the website worldometers, so far 98,010,507 people have been infected with coronavirus in the world, 70,402,587 are considered cured, and 2,097,279 people have died as a result of this infection.
Currently, 25,510,641 cases are active, but only 111,745 of them, or 0.4 percent, are in a serious or critical condition.

A health worker prepares to vaccinate a colleague against COVID-19 with Sinovac's Coronavac vaccine at the Prof. Dr. Cemil Tascioglu City Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey, 14 January 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA

Some health experts have warned that the effectiveness of these vaccines is still not fully researched, and note that their delivery dates are also still uncertain.

More than 107,000 people in Greece have received at least one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus, government spokesperson Christos Tarantilis said in a regular press briefing on Thursday, adding that the pace of vaccination depends on the number of available jabs.

The beginning of 2021 was marked by the question: which vaccine to choose? Looking at our politicians, who wanted to point out the safety of vaccines of all three manufacturers - none of them was neglected.

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša said he expected 70% of the Slovenian population could be vaccinated against coronavirus by the beginning of summer as he presented Tuesday fresh figures on planned deliveries of vaccines that indicate Slovenia should get significantly more jabs in the second quarter than previously thought.

"Mass vaccination is the only way to defeat the virus," Brnabi said, hosted by TV Prva.
She emphasized that those who decide not to receive the vaccine will not suffer any sanctions.
The Prime Minister said that a vaccination point was opened today at the Belgrade Fair.
She emphasized the importance of the information system that was launched to monitor vaccination.

Today, the Minister of Health, Zlatibor Lonar, received Sinopharm's vaccine against COVID-19, and then he referred to the appearance of a new strain in Hungary.
"The new strain that has appeared in Hungary worries us. There are already 5 people infected with it. That is what we will talk about today at the Crisis Staff," Loncar said.