OVIEDO, Spain The positive coronavirus trend continues in Spain as the Health Ministry confirmed 268 more deaths and 1,309 new active infections on Thursday. Both figures are significantly down from Wednesday and far below the peak of 950 daily deaths in early April and nearly 10,000 new identified cases on March 25. In total, 213,435 […]
ANKARA Turkey will dispatch medical supplies to Palestine to help its combat with the novel coronavirus outbreak, the presidential spokesman said on Thursday. “By the instruction of President Erdogan, medical supplies including masks, overalls and test kits will be sent to Palestine [on Thursday night] for distribution in the West Bank and Gaza,” Ibrahim Kalin […]
ANKARA Some 30,000 Turkish citizens are in quarantine after returning from abroad as part of measures to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, an official said on Thursday. A total of 29,284 citizens are in quarantine at dormitories across 76 provinces, said Youth and Sports Minister Mehmet Kasapoglu. Kasapoglu also said that 34,452 citizens […]
ANKARA Turkish security forces “neutralized” four YPG/PKK terrorists in northern Syria, near Turkey’s southern border, the National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. “4 YPG/PKK terrorists, who were attempting to infiltrate into the Operation Peace Spring zone were successfully neutralized by our heroic commandos,” the ministry said on Twitter. Turkish authorities often use the word “neutralize” […]
ANKARA The number of deaths in Australia from the novel coronavirus increased to 91, local media reported on Thursday. An 86-year-old woman lost her life to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in Tasmania, the ABC news reported. The official figures suggest that around 560,968 people have been tested across the country and 5,717 […]
ANKARA South Korea’s fight against the coronavirus seems to have borne fruit as the country recorded no new local cases on Thursday. It is first time in last 72 days that no local case of COVID-19 was found in the country, according to the South Korean president. President Moon Jae-in applauded people for helping curb […]
MOSCOW A record high of new coronavirus cases has taken Russia’s overall count past 105,000 and the death toll has crossed 1,000, authorities announced on Wednesday. A total of 7,099 people tested positive for COVID-19 and 101 patients died over the past 24 hours, the emergency team said in a statement. The total number of […]
ISTANBUL Turkey welcomed 4.24 million foreign visitors in the first quarter of 2020, the country’s Culture and Tourism Ministry said on Thursday. The number of foreigners visiting the country dropped by 22.1% on a yearly basis in the quarter, the ministry data showed. After the COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in China last December, tourism and […]
ANKARA The Turkish Central Bank on Thursday revised its year-end inflation forecast to 7.4% for 2020, down from 8.2%. The 0.8 percentage point fall was driven by the downward revision in the projections of the output gap and food inflation, the Central Bank governor said while presenting the second inflation report. Murat Uysal said that […]
ADANA, Turkey Security forces seized 4,710 cannabis roots in an operation in southern Turkey, local officials announced Thursday. The police units seized cannabis sativa roots in a greenhouse located in a field in the central Seyhan district of Adana. During the operation, two suspects were arrested and one detained, said the officials. *Written by Havva […]
