Coronavirus: How Turkey took control of Covid-19 emergency By Orla GuerinBBC International Correspondent, Istanbul https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52831017
- 29 May 2020 - Share this with Facebook <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52831017#> - Share this with Messenger <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52831017#> - Share this with Twitter <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52831017#> - Share this with Email <?subject=Shared%20from%20BBC%20News&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-52831017> [image: image.jpeg] Image copyrightEPAImage captionTurkey has a lower recorded death toll than many other countries in Europe Covid-19 came late to Turkey - on 11 March - but soon singed every corner of the country. Within a month all 81 provinces had been affected. It was the one of the fastest growing outbreaks in the world - worse than China or the UK. There were fears that the death toll would soar turning Turkey into another Italy, which was then the hardest hit country. Three months on that hasn't happened, even without a total lockdown. The official death toll is 4,397. Some doctors here dispute that, claiming the real figure could be twice as high because Turkey only includes those who test positive. Either way, in the horrific annals of the Covid-19 era, it's a relatively low number for a population of 83 million. [image: image.png] An unusual lockdown Experts warn it is hard to reach conclusions and compare statistics while countries are still burying their dead. But Turkey has "clearly averted a much bigger disaster", according to Dr Jeremy Rossman, Lecturer in Virology at the University of Kent. "Turkey fits in the category of several countries that responded fairly quickly with testing, tracing, isolation and movement restrictions," he told the BBC. "It's a fairly small club of countries that have been quite effective in reducing the viral spread." *Click on the link for the rest.* -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W_-OofSDc%3DqVfRFWN8c1jVZEgzamzR-47N1i8F1QBPqbw%40mail.gmail.com.
