by the President of Turkey Tayyip Erdogan Lokdaun because of the situation with Coronavirus began at 19.00 on Thursday, it will last until 5.00 on May 17, in its framework there will be a 24-hour Commandant hour, the longest in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, RIA Novosti reports. / P>
Earlier, such restrictions acted in Turkey on weekends and festive days in April-May 2020 and from the end of November of the same year, their maximum duration did not exceed four days.
March 1, R.T. Erdogan declared mitigating anti-epidemic measures. Turkey provinces were distributed to four categories: low, medium, high and very high risk to spread coronavirus. In the first two categories, the curfew on weekends was completely abolished, in the first three cafes and restaurants opened, they were allowed to receive customers from 7.00 to 19.00, subject to no more than 50%.
58 of 81 Turkish provinces, including Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya, Mugle, at the end of March, the curfew was again introduced on the weekend – from 21.00 Friday to 5.00 Monday. In addition, during the period of the Muslims of the month of Ramadan from April 13 to May 12, cafes and restaurants throughout the country work only in the delivery mode and removal. Erdogan later declared the tightening of restrictive measures, in particular the limitation of a long-distance communication and an increase in the duration of the daily curfew.
The daily increase in the revealed morbidity on April 16 in Turkey showed a maximum from the beginning of the pandemic, reaching 63,082 cases, on April 21, a maximum of death per day was registered – 362, in the following days, the daily increase decreased by about one and a half times at the maximum indicator of the number of deaths .
On Monday, speaking at the end of the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, Erdogan announced a full locked in the country from 19.00 on April 29 to 05.00 on May 17. All organizations and institutions will cease their activities, with the exception of the liberated Circular MIA. All types of training will be carried out only in absentia. Intercity trips are allowed only after receiving permission from the authorities. Hotel booking is no exception for restrictions on long-distance travel. For foreign tourists, the curfew does not apply.