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Despite the stubbornly high COVID-19 cases, Turkey's hospitals are not overwhelmed thanks to vaccinations, the country's health minister has said, adding that schools will not close again.

More than half of the active COVID-19 cases in Turkey are people under the age of 30, the country's health minister has said, renewing calls for the public to get vaccinated and strictly follow the anti-virus measures.

Turkey's vaccination program is being executed successfully and going according to plans, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said, praising the achievements made in a "short period of time."

He noted the high rates reached in the number of people who have received the first dose of the COVID-19 jab, urging people to get their second doses.

The number of people, who have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, in Turkey is not yet high enough to fight the pandemic, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has warned as the coronavirus cases are on the rise again in major cities.

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Some 87 percent of current COVID-19 cases include people who are not fully vaccinated, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in a news conference following a meeting of the Coronavirus Science Board on July 28, appealing people to get jabbed.

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Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has called on all authorities, institutions and local administrators to monitor the vaccination rates in Turkey's all 81 provinces, urging to ramp up the speed of vaccinations by establishing mobile inoculation teams in the country.

In a country of some 84 million, Turkish healthcare workers administered nearly a million COVID-19 jabs across the country on June 25, according to a top official.

By taking our own measures, we will learn to participate in the normalization of life, the Turkish health minister told media outlets following a virtual meeting of the Coronavirus Science Board on June 2. 

A man who attacked and severely injured an orthopedist at a hospital in the capital Ankara has prompted a massive public outcry in Turkey.

Ertan İskender, a doctor at Ankara Training and Research Hospital, was stabbed in his back and his right hand by an assailant, Bayram Nargüner, while examining another patient on May 26.

In the medieval Turkish city of Mardin, Medine Ereli calls out to a team of medical workers walking along the town's cobblestoned main street. Her 59-year old husband refuses to get vaccinated, she tells the doctor and nurse, before leading them to Enver Ereli, who's on the job as a municipal sanitation worker.