ANKARA, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The delivery of the first
shipment of Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine from China to Turkey has
been postponed "1-2 days" due to a case of the coronavirus in
Beijing customs, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on
Sunday.
Turkey has agreed to purchase 50 million doses of Sinovac's
CoronaVac and was expecting the first delivery of 3
million doses on Monday. It will also procure 4.5 million doses
of the vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pifzer
, with an option to get 30 million more doses later.
"Due to the COVID-19 alarm in Beijing and a COVID-19 case at
the Beijing customs, mobility at customs has been temporarily
suspended. For this reason, the arrival of our vaccines, which
were supposed to depart after customs operations, will be late
by 1-2 days," Koca said on Twitter.
(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu;
Editing by Alison Williams)