Coronavirus deaths in Turkey rose to a record for the seventh consecutive day and the number of new cases remained high despite efforts by President Tayyip Erdogan's government to contain a second wave of infections, Reuters has reported.
The government introduced tighter measures a week ago including nightly curfews at weekends, restrictions on movements of people of non-working age, a move to online schooling and limiting restaurants and cafes to takeaway services.
However, the moves have done little to halt a remorseless rise in cases and fatalities, with today's toll of 185 dead 45 per cent above the peak of the first wave in April, and the number of new cases behind only the United States, India and Brazil — all countries with far larger populations than Turkey.
More than 29,000 cases were reported in the last 24 hours.
