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Discussions about the number of deaths announced with the peak of the number of cases in the Corona virus epidemic are also back on the agenda. The number of cases and deaths in Istanbul, which is the center of the epidemic, is also at the center of these discussions.
IMM President Ekrem İmamoğlu, bulunarak corona virus outbreak recently warning about the point where the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Cemetery Department to the health institutions of “infectious diseases” of the number of deaths sent every day by code, is at least 50 more than the number of deaths reported for Turkey that he had said.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said: “All the figures we have announced are correct, everyone should focus on action.” In response to the minister, İmamoğlu stated that between November last year and November this year, the number of deaths more than doubled in the last 10 days in Istanbul, “There is no other contagious disease between last year and this year; there is only one covid. If there is another contagious disease between last year and this year, let them explain it. He said: “There are more than twice as many dead.”
IMM Cemeteries Department Kucukcekmece Gasillary Cemeteries (Photo: Fahrettin ÖZTÜRK)
THE NUMBER OF DEATHS doubled
Finally, the image of the long line formed by the bodies waiting to be washed in front of the gasilhane in Küçükçekmece summarizes the latest situation in Istanbul. In Istanbul, a difference of almost double the number of deaths in November of the last 3 years is striking. In Istanbul, where the number of daily deaths is around 200 in November 2018 and 2019, this year the number is around 400. When the number of deaths in Istanbul is questioned in the e-government application, the total number of deaths between the 1 and November 26, 2018 was 5,385, while this number was 5,312 in the same period in 2019. When it comes to 2020, the total number of deaths between November 1 and 26 increases to 9,828.
DISCUSSION OF THE CODE “INFECTIOUS DISEASE”
Death notifications sent from health institutions to the IMM Cemetery Department with the infectious disease code are also a topic of discussion. Since this code was not used much in death reports before the epidemic, it is not possible to compare it with previous years. It is also controversial whether all deaths recorded as “communicable diseases” are due to Covid-19. The number of deaths reported by health institutions to the IMM Cemetery Department in the last 9 months in Istanbul with the code of “communicable diseases”; While it began to be expressed in the thousands in April and May, it decreased to the hundreds in June, July, August, and September. In October, the number of deaths began to be expressed again in the thousands. The number of people who died in Istanbul from the infectious disease since March, when the first case was observed, reached 11,600.
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