The Turkish health ministry is allowing people who were inoculated with Sinovac's coronavirus vaccine to take an additional Pfizer dose as it looks to ease travel to countries that have not approved the Chinese shot, Reuters reports.

Last month, authorities started giving a third dose to health workers and people aged over 50, as studies showed that the antibodies triggered by Sinovac's vaccine decline after around six months.

More than six million of those booster doses have been administered, and the ministry said that people who had been given a booster dose of Pfizer could receive a second Pfizer shot if needed for travel.

A medic prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Diyarbakir, Turkey on July 27. — Reuters
A medic prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Diyarbakir, Turkey on July 27. — Reuters

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