Koronovirus – Turkey: Universal closure over the weekend – Record cases beaten



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THE Turkey entered the first universal lock for the weekend of May, as well as cases and deaths of young people coronavirus one after another negative records are broken in recent days.

The country of 83 million people yesterday recorded 32,736 new infections, including asymptomatic ones, the highest number since the pandemic began in March.

The death toll increased yesterday by 193, reaching Daily log recorded earlier this week, with a total of 14,509 deaths.

Turkish television channels broadcast images of empty squares and streets today in Istanbul, the capital Ankara and Izmir, where few people and vehicles circulated.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said, according to the Anadolu news agency, that most citizens were complying with quarantine regulations.

Turkey is currently in fourth place in the world for the number of new daily cases, behind the US, India and Brazil, with these countries having much larger populations than that.

The last time the country imposed universal closures on weekends in major cities was in May. It announced traffic bans for the weekend of last month, but the measures failed to stem the rise in new cases and deaths.

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