Istanbul — Turkey began administering the Covid-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac to health-care workers on Thursday, as it rolls out a nationwide vaccination programme against the disease.

Turkey has reported more than 2.3-million infections since March and still reports about 10,000 new cases and 170 deaths each day after a month of weekend lockdowns and nightly curfews. The official death toll stands at 23,000...

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