The mayors of the two largest cities in Turkey recently revealed that the government is trying to cover up the resurgence of the Coronavirus infection trend, despite the health threat to people due to lack of transparency.
According to the "Financial Times" newspaper, the Mayor of Istanbul, Akram Imamoglu, and the Mayor of the capital, Ankara, Mansur Yavas, questioned the numbers announced by the Turkish government regarding Corona cases.
The two officials added that the reports they receive regarding the epidemic situation at a local level do not match the data which is being announced by the government.
In the meantime, the Minister of Health in Turkey, Fakhruddin Al-Khoja, has warned of a significant increase in infections and deaths caused by the Coronavirus recently.
On Saturday evening, the authorities announced the registration of 1,549 new confirmed cases of Coronavirus, within 24 hours, while the number of deaths reached 39, and this number is considered the highest since mid-May.
Yet, Imamoglu and Yavas; They are two members of the opposition Republican People's Party, who see that the number of deaths in each city is close to the announced total number of injuries for Turkey, which is surprising.
The Mayor of Istanbul said that he sent about four or five correspondences to the Minister of Health and inquired about the matter, stressing the need to be courageous in revealing the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Yavas explained that last Tuesday, for example, the capital, Ankara, alone recorded 17 deaths as a result of corona infection, but the government announced only about 22 deaths throughout the country.
He asked about the use of concealing the situation, saying that what should is the opposite, that is, to portray the situation as it is, and with what it entails, so that people stop going to various gatherings, weddings, and funerals.
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