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Turkey lowers vaccination age to 18

Turkey has dramatically increased its vaccination efforts in June.

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A person receives the second dose of the Pfizer-BionNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Ankara, on May 3, 2021. — ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images

Turkey has again lowered its age of eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines.

Anyone 18 or older can be vaccinated against the coronavirus in Turkey starting Friday. The country of more than 80 million wants 55 million people to get at least one dose by mid-July. So far, more than 44 million doses have been administered, the Turkish state’s Anadolu Agency reported.

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