Turkey's Erdogan Receives COVID-19 Vaccine

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the COVID-19 vaccine in front of TV cameras Thursday, January 14, a move that a spokesman for his AK Party said was aimed to alleviate any public doubts about the effectiveness of the shot.

Turkey began administering the shots developed by China's Sinovac to health workers on Thursday, rolling out a nationwide vaccination program against a disease that has killed more than 23,000 people in the country. It has so far vaccinated more than 250,000 health workers.

Erdogan received his first dose of the vaccine at the Ankara City Hospital. He arrived with Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, who received the first vaccine in the country a day earlier.

(Reuters)

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