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Russian sovereign wealth fund RDIF to produce vaccine in Turkey

Russian sovereign wealth fund RDIF to produce vaccine in Turkey

According to the Interfax news agency, Russian sovereign wealth fund RDIF  had signed a deal with Turkey on the production of its Sputnik V vaccine.

RDIF said in a statement that it had started to transfer the production technology to Turkey.

RDIF also has signed deals to produce Sputnik V with manufacturers in Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Brazil, India and South Korea.

Ankara began its nationwide vaccination campaign by using China’s Sinovac on Jan. 14, with health care workers among those who initially received the shots, followed by high-risk groups.

More than 1.2 million people have since been vaccinated against coronavirus.

On Friday, the number of cases fell below 6,000, according to the Health Ministry’s data. A total of 5,967 cases, including 734 symptomatic patients, were confirmed across the country.

Turkey’s overall case tally has reached 2.41 million, while the nationwide death toll reached 24,789, with 149 fatalities over the past day.

As many as 6,018 more patients recovered in the country, bringing the total past 2.29 million.