ISTANBUL – New cases of coronavirus in Turkey exceeded 1,000 for the first time in 3 weeks on Tuesday, according to an official recount, breaking what the government has called a critical threshold to reconsider the rules.
The 1,083 new coVID-19 instances reflect a “severe” buildup in recent days that raises considerations when Turkey concluded a four-day holiday weekend that happened while many Turks took national holidays, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca wrote on Twitter.
The virus killed 5,765 and inflated a total of 234,934 in the country, the maximum of which lifted its partial blockade on June 1. New instances have been only 1,000 since July 13. (Report through Jonathan Spicer; edited through Jonathan Oatis)
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