Turkish Health Minister Koca: It will be done in schools with the approval of the parents, only by taking a sample from the throat

"The Corona-Virus Scientific Committee gathered today through video meeting."

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca

Turkey (News Update), after the meeting, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca through statements on social media. Emphasizing that the screening tests to be carried out in schools will not be done without the endorsement of the parents, Koca said, "If our parents agree to sampling from the students in the approval form, merely the throat trial will be experienced."

The Corona-virus Scientific Committee gathers under the chairmanship of Health Minister “Fahrettin Koca”.

Highlights from Turkish Health Minister Koca's statements:

We depleted the first week of face-to-face edification in our schools, adapting to the new school environment. Our planning for the measures we took and the algorithms for the administration of possible unfavorable proceedings were effective in managing the conformity week without encountering main troubles. We have frequently stated that keeping our schools open to face-to-face edification is our top precedence, and we will persist to do so.

In order to guarantee this, I would like to contribute to you some tangible information about the pilot scans we have planned. No action will be taken in the tests to be carried out for screening functions in our education centers without the authorization of our parents.

If our parents permit the sample to be taken from the student for the test in the approval form, merely the throat test will be taken and the screening procedure will be carried out. It is not feasible for any action to be taken on our body, which is the most revered reliance, without the permission of the person or his guardian. Even if the subject is an epidemic, this is the case.

Vaccine map will be renewed:

Our vaccination program continues according to preparation and successfully. In the first dose vaccination, we attained a major gain with vaccination at a top rate and in a short time. Now it's time to fulfill our vaccinations and have a 2nd dose of vaccinations. We are updating our table showing the first dose vaccination rates of our provinces on the Turkey chart that we share with you on a daily basis, and we are opening to share the same chart with the two-dose vaccination rates.

As of Monday, we will share the chart viewing the rates of 2 doses of vaccination.

In recent days, we have observed that the high number of our losses is allied with the efficiency of the vaccine. The unvaccinated rate among our cases and losses is at very top. This is an indication of what an adversity anticipates us without vaccines. As the ways of getting people are limited, the virus contaminates the citizens it can reach. Unluckily, it is not probable to avoid this without gaining communal immunity.

Our existing corona cases and losses could have been much “high” without the vaccine. This can be seen visibly. The eruption will end by providing communal immunity. I need to be vaccinated for this. Let's not disregard the fact that those who have been vaccinated are sheltered until the vaccination is fulfilled, that is, fourteen days after the second dose. We have to execute with the measures until social immunity is accomplished.

It is tremendously serious to carry on the mask and remoteness rules by uniting them with cleaning. We came out of an atmosphere of nervousness and bewilderment. It's up to us to make it enduring. ‘Commonly, we will complete with the proceedings and reach community immunity as a vaccine.