Turkey has inoculated more than 650,000 people since it started its mass rollout of China’s Sinovac Biotech vaccine on Thursday, CNN reports.
Each dose of the vaccine in Turkey is given by appointment with a barcode matched to the patient’s identifying information and scanned into a centralized database.
Turkey began its vaccination effort across all 81 provinces on Thursday, starting with frontline workers.
Turkey received 3 million doses of Sinovac in December and approved the vaccine for use on Wednesday evening.
Phase 3 trial results for the Sinovac vaccine have still not been published.