Turkey’s Turkovac to be tested as booster for Pfizer-BioNTech jab

By Trend Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced that Turkey’s domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine Turkovac will be tested as a booster shot or third dose for people who have been administered two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, Trend reports citing Daily Sabah. Koca’s announcement, which was reported by the Turkish media on Thursday, comes after Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting in which the government discussed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic among other topics. The minister said the trial would start on Monday, marking a “world-first” in terms of administering an inactive vaccine (Turk…

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