More than 40 million people got their first doses of coronavirus vaccines in Turkey, the country's health minister said on Wednesday.
Fahrettin Koca also announced the latest weekly infection rates for COVID-19 across 81 provinces in total. Sharing the data for July 17 to July 23 on Twitter, Koca urged people to get vaccinated and follow the measures.
The number of cases per 100,000 people was 88.19 in Istanbul – home to nearly one-fifth of Turkey's population – 69.13 in the capital Ankara, and 33.43 in the Aegean province of Izmir.
Turkey has administered over 69.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since it launched a mass vaccination campaign in January.