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Turkey to begin making Russia's Sputnik V vaccine

The Russian COVID-19 vaccine would add an alternative in Turkey to the Chinese version currently in use.

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People queue outside a hospital to get their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to protect against COVID-19 in Ankara on April 2, 2021. — ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images

Turkey will start producing a Russian vaccine against COVID-19, the Turkish state Anadolu Agency reported today.

Domestic production of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine will begin in Turkey within a few weeks. The manufacturing will take place at plants belonging to the Turkish pharmaceutical company Viscoran Ilac.

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