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Months after confirming that it provides daily information only on coronavirus patients with symptoms, Turkey also changed the data on the total number of people infected since the start of the pandemic.
This happened with the daily update of the data carried out by the country’s Ministry of Health.
The regular report by the Reuters agency, published today around 12 noon Bulgarian time, still speaks of 1,018 million infected, but shortly before 8:00 p.m., according to international and Turkish media, there are 1,836,728 people.
The number of cured has also changed dramatically, reaching 1.6 million.
For a long time, Turkey only announced patients with symptoms. For months, its contagion curve, in a significant number of tests, aroused suspicion in some observers. One of the speculations was about the way it was reported, but authorities denied that such a problem existed, despite accusations that they were trying to cover up the spread of the coronavirus so as not to impose a complete lockdown on the country.
Reuters data of the newly infected at 12 o’clock Bulgarian time.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the virus posed the risk of the country becoming a “new Italy” or Spain, but the number of infected per day quickly stabilized. Despite problems with the data, the number of deaths never reached that of most major European countries and is only 16,147.
After acknowledging that Turkey only declares patients with symptoms (hospitalized), it took almost two months before the country started adding asymptomatic people to official statistics. Thus, from 6,000 or 7,000 per day at the end of November, the number of newly infected suddenly approached 30,000, but this did not change the general statistics.
In Turkey, there are currently a number of restrictions in place, a large part of the business is down, night hours have been introduced for weekdays, and a total ban on going out on weekends. In the spring, the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, called for the blockade of Istanbul, among the arguments was that even the simple act of moving in public transport dangerously spread contagion in the metropolis (with a population more than double that of Bulgaria ).
