Turkey’s coronavirus death toll rises by 48 to 4,055, with new 1,708 cases
Turkey’s death toll from the coronavirus rose by 48 to total 4,055 and new confirmed cases rose by 1,708 to bring the country’s total to 146,457, Health Ministry data showed on May 15.
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Turkey’s death toll from the coronavirus rose by 48 to total 4,055 and new confirmed cases rose by 1,708 to bring the country’s total to 146,457, Health Ministry data showed on May 15.
"The number of our intensive care and intubated patients is continuing to decrease. Our test number is higher than yesterday. There is a partial increase in our case numbers. Our new life style is Controlled Social Life, i.e. taking precautions all together. Its condition is: a mask and a social distance of 1.5 meters," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca wrote on Twitter.
Koca has recently announced that the outbreak is currently “under control” in Turkey, but also issued a warning that a second wave of infections might break out if measures are not abided by.
The government has introduced a normalization process to ease the coronavirus restrictions, and shopping malls and barbershops across the country became operational on May 11.