Turkey recorded on Wednesday the highest daily deaths of Covid-19 with 240 case in the last 24 hours. The overall official toll to 16,881, axxording to the health ministry.
Meanwhile, Turkey recorded 32,102 new coronavirus cases, including asymptomatic ones, in the last 24 hours. Also, the government has imposed weekday curfews and weekend lockdowns to curb the surge in cases. Also, Turkey ranks third globally in the highest number of daily cases, behind the United States and Brazil.
On other hand, The official number of daily deaths from COVID-19 more than doubled in the past four weeks to over 200 per day. The government has also revised the total number of infections since spring from about 550,000 at the beginning of December to more than 1.8 million in mid-December. For months, critics have accused the Turkish government of concealing the true extent of the pandemic, for the most part to protect the economy.
Meanwhile, Turkish Medical Association (TTB), the largest association of medical professionals in Turkey explained that Ankara, has long failed to publish complete case figures encouraged the spread of the virus. Also, added that the government "lost control of the pandemic."
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