Women dressed in protective masks against an ancient source amid the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Istanbul on 9 July 2020.
Murad Sezer / Reuters
Summer in Istanbul is to regain generality, as long as you wear a mask.
People take the bus to work, stop at grocery stores and congregate in crowded outdoor cafes.On weekends, families stop at the city’s beaches, where lifeguards with megaphones ask revelers to stay 6 feet away.
Turkey’s reopening follows a national hiatus in coronavirus infections, but the country’s largest medical agreement says that based on its own research, the actual number of coronavirus cases in Turkey is much higher than the government admits.
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“The reopening resolution is based on economic reasons, not human aptitude…A human being’s aptitude is more valuable than economics.
“The reopening resolution was based on economic reasons rather than human health,” said an extensive care physician in Istanbul, who told Le Monde that he wanted to remain anonymous because he did not allow him to speak in public.
“The aptitude of a human being is more than the economy.”
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In terms of the government’s good enough reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, Turkey has behaved well. In February, the country temporarily moved to avoid flights and close borders when the virus spread to neighboring Iran.In the coming months, with only one weekend closures in major cities, the country consistent with the rate of death per capita through COVID-19 remained among the lowest in Europe.
“We have noticed that [other] states cannot their chain of origin despite their economic strength and cannot make public order,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a rite to open a new study center in the commercial city of Izmit..
“None of the boring and shameful photographs of many other places have been experienced in our country.”
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This summer, Turkey continued to record between 1,000 and 1,300 new cases across the country, according to figures published through the country’s Ministry of Fitness.This led Germany to partially raise a warning for tourists visiting the Turkish coast, but a European Union Warning opposes the non-essentials for Turkey remains in force.
At this time, there are no restrictions for American travelers.
But the internal reports of the sections of the Turkish Medical Association (Turk Tabipleri Birlii) paint a very different picture.
“There have been more than 1,000 diagnoses every day in Ankara alone …We are saying that these conflicting figures want to be explained, but we have not been given any explanation.
“There have been more than 1,000 diagnoses a day in Ankara alone,” said Dr. Osman Elbek, a medical staff member of the association.”We are saying that these conflicting figures want to be explained, but we have not been given any explanation.
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Elbek marks the reminiscence statistics. Chapters of the association in the southeastern regions of Diyarbakir, Mardin and Batman report an average of one hundred cases a day, he said.
The agrarian province and the apricot-producing province of Malatya report similar figures, but in official government data, Malatya’s workload is combined with six other provinces in a region reporting less than a hundred cases per day.
Elbek also said that while only 1% to 2% of coronavirus patients in most countries will end up in an extensive care unit, 10% of Turkish patients want extensive care and hypothesizes that the virus in Turkey has mutated to more fatal or more benign cases of the disease go unnoticed.
If the number of coronavirus cases in Turkey is underestimated, how many are known.
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The country will most likely have to report only the cases of COVID-19 shown through a PCR test, which opposes World Health Organization guidelines.
But Turkey’s public health officials have raised questions about the reliability of the results of the controls, where patients with clinical symptoms of coronavirus would possibly not be known through a check.
An ICU doctor interviewed stated that even patients who first tested positive for COVID-19 and received the remedy would possibly not be included in the official count, and called for anonymity to protect their safety.
“If a patient dies of COVID-19, but their last verification result is negative, we do not write it in the report, because we know that it will not be approved by public fitness officials and cannot be buried …. Let’s self-set ourselves.”
“If a patient dies of COVID-19, but their last check is negative, we don’t write it in the report, because we know this won’t be approved by public fitness officials and they can’t be buried,” he said..” We self-censed.”
For The German neuroscientist Caghan Kizil, who is not affiliated with the Turkish Medical Association, the consistency of the daily case count in Turkey is a call for attention in itself, which explains how the numbers fluctuate.
“Every day is another in a pandemic. Monday is a race day, Sunday other people are at home. The Basilica of Hagia Sophia has been turned into a mosque, other people have been there, and even after that, nothing. it has changed, “he said.
This suggests one of two things, Kizil said: either Turkey’s ability to verify and identify the coronavirus is too limited, as it should measure the scale of the epidemic, or the numbers are manufactured.
“If [the government] hides it, it means it knows the actual figures and takes precautions…But if the case at the moment is true, that we can’t locate those cases, it means it’s out of control.”
“If they hide it, it means they know the real numbers and take precautions,” Kizil said.”But if the case of the moment is true, that we can’t locate those cases, it means it’s out of control.”
In the southeast, home to many members of Turkey’s Kurdish minority, a tense medical formula is suffering to manage the epidemic, said Dr. Halis Yerlikaya, an oncology specialist in the city of Diyarbakir and a member of the medical association’s central guidance committee.
Public hospitals in the towns of Mardin, Sanliurfa, Gaziantep and Diyarbakir are operating at full capacity, he said.Patients with mild symptoms will be excluded from hospitals to make way for more severe cases, endangering their families when they return home.
“At the beginning of the pandemic… we had to do the mandatory treatment. But at the moment Array … we can’t settle for hospital patients. Because we don’t have the capacity. Array .. The same goes for the total region.
“At the beginning of the pandemicArray … we had to do the mandatory treatment.But now… we can’t settle for patients in the hospital.Because we don’t have the capacity,” he said. The same is true for the total region.”
In southeastern cities, many families live together in a single house, Yerlikaya said.In the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of families were evicted from villages and small towns during Turkey’s decades of struggle against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK.combination in cities and rebuilt their lives, however, a generation of inherited wealth was wiped out in the process.
“When the calls were made to ‘stay in the house’, other people here said, ‘Okay, let’s stay in the house, but are we going to starve?” said Yerlikaya.
Turkish officials have stated that the number of cases is increasing, but deny that hospitals are full.Instead, doctors and experts reviewing public warnings that the coronavirus scenario is worse than what the government claims are being prosecuted and charged with “alarming the public.”
The state and pro-government media do not make Turkey’s official statistics, favoring stories about rising case rates in other parts of the world and the miraculous healings of the elderly and strong Turks.
“Let us accept science as truth, let us follow the rules,” the country’s fitness minister Dr. Fahrettin Koca tweeted Wednesday when his workplace disclosed the knowledge that Turkey had exceeded 250,000 cases shown of coronavirus.”There’s no epidemic that hasn’t happened, it’s been [finished in history].”
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