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		</div><p>Vaccination teams in Turkey have been travelling across roads covered with ice and snow to reach residents in the country’s isolated mountain villages.</p>
<p>They are seeking to overcome the challenging terrain as the government bids to inoculate 60% of the country’s people against coronavirus over the next three months.</p>
<p>After much effort, medical workers arrived to vaccinate older villagers in Gumuslu, a small settlement of 350 in the central province of Sivas that lies 140 miles from the provincial capital.</p>
<p>“It’s a difficult challenge to come here,” said Dr Rustem Hasbek, head of Sivas Health Services.</p>
<p>“The geography is tough, the climate is tough, as you can see.”</p>
<p>Turkey rolled out the Chinese Sinovac vaccine on January 14 and has so far given out 8.2 million doses.</p>
<p>The vaccine is given in two doses 28 days apart.</p>
<p>Ankara has also ordered 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.</p>
<p>Health minister Fahrettin Koca said that Turkey aims to vaccinate 52.5 million people by the end of May.</p>
<p>To date, around 10% of Turkey’s 83 million population has received at least the first dose.</p>
<p>Healthcare workers, older people and people with serious medical conditions were among the first to receive the jab.</p>
<p>“I can’t go to the hospital. I have a heart condition and I get motion sickness in cars,” said Gumuslu resident Zeynep Yigit, 70.</p>
<p>“The doctors came and vaccinated us.”</p>
<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to announce the easing of coronavirus restrictions on Monday.</p>
<p>He previously said the government would evaluate the situation on a province-by-province basis before allowing restaurants, cafes and other shuttered businesses to reopen.</p>
<p>Weekend and evening curfews could also be relaxed.</p>
<p>Still, infections have spiked in recent days, with Turkey recording more than 9,000 daily cases, the highest level since mid-January.</p>
<p>Overall, the country has seen more than 2.6 million cases since March last year and nearly 28,500 confirmed Covid-19-related deaths.</p>
<p>Experts say all confirmed numbers worldwide are undercounts due to missed cases and limited testing.</p>
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