Cyprus Mail 14 January 2021 - by Evie Andreou
The first batch of Chinese Sinovac’s vaccines arrived in the north early on Thursday from Turkey.
An ambulance plane carrying 20,000 doses of the vaccine arrived in the north at around 5am.
‘Health minister’ Ali Pilli told media that 5,000 healthcare workers would be vaccinated first while priority would be given to people over 85 and chronic patients.
Pilli said that nine vaccination centres have been set up and would be increased to 15 in the coming days.
The north is also due to receive part of the vaccines reserved by the EU for Cyprus.
According to reports in the north this week, the first 2,000 Pfizer doses were expected to be delivered to the Turkish Cypriot side soon, but community leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday said that unless the vaccines are delivered directly via the EU and not through the Greek Cypriot side, they would not agree to receive them.
