Turkey plans to offer its domestic vaccine to all mankind when the work on the vaccine is completed, the president said on Tuesday.
The vaccine problem has taken a terrible turn, almost 100 countries do not yet have access to the COVID-19 vaccine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a video address to a UN-sponsored meeting on financing development in the COVID-19 era and beyond. and governments.
Although there are countries that have vaccinated almost all of their citizens, billions of people cannot access even the first dose of the vaccine, he said.
But it is clear that the pandemic will not end and economic recovery will not take place without fair access to the vaccine, he said.
Countries that have reached the number of doses that can vaccinate their citizens should deliver surplus vaccines to countries that need it, Erdogan said.