Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board will convene to discuss the timeline for Covid-19 vaccine distribution on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Health Minister Fahrettin Koca.
The meeting will be held at 17:00 o’clock via videoconference, according to the Health Ministry
After the meeting, Koca is expected to make a written statement after the meeting.
On 6 December, Ministry of Health Koca announced that 50 million doses of CoronaVac, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac, by the end of February 2021, and 10 million doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s BNT162b2 for December 2020.
The Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board of Turkey is a group of medical scientists set up by the Ministry of Health to develop measures in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in Turkey that are imposed by the government.
The Scientific Advisory Board was set up on 10 January 2020 following the emergence of the coronavirus outbreak, before the World Health Organization confirmed it mid-March as pandemic.
The board consists of 26 members, including 21 university professors and 4 medical experts specialized in Pulmonology, Infectious Diseases, Clinical Microbiology and a legal advisor.
The number of board members increased later to 31 with the joining of expert academics in virology, internal medicine, intensive care medicine. (ILKHA)
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