As the coronavirus has spread all around Turkey because of the government’s mistakes in containing the disease, it has now lost the opportunity to implement a country-wide quarantine, according to the Turkish Medical Association (TTB).
“Cases and contacts are almost everywhere. After this stage, the opportunity to implement a country-wide quarantine was missed. Locally or regionally, quarantine and isolation can still be applied quickly and decisively in the light of epidemiological data,” the TTB said in a statement today.
While the government has been unwilling to declare country-wide quarantine, more than 15 villages and neighborhoods have been quarantined in various parts of the country so far.
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The TTB said that effective community containment would not be possible while those employed in the private sector have to continue working.
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