Is there a coronavirus in Turkey in 2020

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

How are things going with the Chinese coronavirus in Turkey in February 2020? We will find out the latest news and how many infected there are at the moment.

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The 2019-nCoV coronavirus has yet to make it to Turkey in 2020. Here is the latest news in the Turkish media in this regard:

1. From Wednesday, February 4, until the end of the month, Turkey will stop passenger flights with China. This decision was made by the country's Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca. There will be only cargo flights.
2. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a telephone conversation with Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, expressed the hope that the outbreak of coronavirus will not affect trade and economic cooperation between their countries. Now China is taking measures to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus infection, following all WHO guidelines. Mevlut Cavusoglu believes China will cope with the coronavirus epidemic.
3. According to the BBC, now 11 countries of the world - Turkey, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Korea, Pakistan, France, Britain, Japan, Indonesia, Iran and UNICEF have donated aid to China to fight the coronavirus.
4. Turkish Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy believes that the coronavirus outbreak will not negatively affect the number of tourists vacationing in Turkey in 2020. In 2019 alone, the number of Chinese who visited Turkey totaled 450,000. Now it is very problematic to make any predictions on this score.
5. 12 people, ten tourists from China and 2 Turks, were hospitalized in Cappadocia with suspicion of the virus. A day earlier, one of the tourists complained of high fever, nausea, and malaise. The Turkish authorities acted promptly, placing 9 more Chinese and a guide in the infectious diseases department of the hospital. The results of analyzes have not yet been received from the Ministry of Health.
6. In the province of Aksaray, 12 workers (of whom 9 are Chinese) have also been quarantined due to suspected coronavirus. The Sabah newspaper reports that the Chinese, who work at the natural gas storage facility, began to feel dizzy, nauseous and vomiting. In addition, they flew in from China in mid-January.
7. Turkey sent its military transport aircraft to China to evacuate Turkish citizens. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, only 49 people, of which 34 are Turks, are also citizens of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Albania. Six people from Wuhan voluntarily refused to leave the city.

Upon the arrival of the plane, all passengers will face a 2-week quarantine at a Turkish hospital. The test results will show if there are any sick among them.

Why is 2019-nCoV dangerous?

The disease proceeds as an acute respiratory disease. Typical symptoms are sore throat, dry cough, shortness of breath, indigestion, nausea, headache, loss of consciousness. In the future, the virus infects the respiratory and nervous systems, and then the kidneys fail, and the person dies.

To protect against illness, measures must be taken:

• wash your hands more often;
• drink plenty of water and walk in the fresh air;
• at the first symptoms of a cold, consult a doctor, do not self-medicate;
• if possible, limit travel and travel to countries where the coronavirus has been detected;
• do not consume products of animal origin (meat, fish, milk) without preliminary heat treatment;
• limit trips to crowded places (cinemas, theaters, shopping centers), because the virus is transmitted by airborne droplets.

Recall that a deadly coronavirus was detected in Wuhan at the end of December. It is believed that it was transmitted through bats to humans.

Due to the high population density and the mild form of transmission of this disease, about 17 thousand people were infected in a month, and the numbers continue to grow. To date, 427 people have died. Vaccines for this virus strain have not yet been invented, scientists from America, Russia, China are working on this.

The coronavirus has not yet appeared in Turkey in 2020, and local media are constantly following the latest news from China.

Summarize

1. It is not yet known whether there are cases in Turkey. Waiting for 14 days of quarantine after the plane lands from Wuhan.
2. Air traffic between Turkey and China has been suspended until the end of February.
3. All patients, especially those who have recently arrived from the PRC, are placed in hospitals for quarantine.
4. People who become infected in Turkey can always go to local doctors, because the epidemic spreads beyond several countries, and the mode of transmission is very easy and cannot be stopped.
5. The Turkish government is taking all the necessary security measures to prevent a hotbed of infection on its territory.
6. It is not known how the coronavirus will behave further, whether it will appear in Turkey in 2020.