Turkey
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan receives a shot of the Sinovac's CoronaVac coronavirus disease vaccine at Ankara City Hospital in Ankara, Turkey, Jan 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Turkey started mass vaccination for COVID-19 on Jan 14 after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese vaccine. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan received a shot of the Sinovac's CoronaVac coronavirus disease vaccine at Ankara City Hospital on the same day.
More than 600,000 health workers in Turkey have received their first doses of COVID-19 shots developed by China's Sinovac during the first two days of the country's vaccination program.
Algeria
A staff member checks the packaging quality of inactivated COVID-19 vaccine products at a packaging plant of the Beijing Biological Products Institute Co Ltd in Beijing, capital of China, Dec 25, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
Algeria's Minister of Communication, Government Spokesman, Ammar Belhimer announced on Jan 13 that Algeria would receive a batch of COVID-19 vaccine from China "before the end of January this year," reported Algeria Press Service.