Turkey: Covid-19 Coronavirus death toll is 29,552

Turkey: Covid-19 Coronavirus death toll is 29,552

Turkey’s COVID-19 explosion brings harsh restrictions.

Al Jazeera English shows that a nationwide weekend curfew was in effect in Turkey to try to stop a sharp rise in new coronavirus infections. At least 30,000 daily cases were reported on that week. More restrictions were introduced in an effort to contain the outbreak. Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu reports from Istanbul, Turkey.

The COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

The first case in Turkey was recorded on March 11, 2020, when a local returned home from a trip to Europe. The first death due to COVID-19 in the country occurred on 15 March, 2020. Turkey has stood out from the rest of Europe by not ordering a legal lockdown. The government kept many businesses open, and allowed companies to set their own guidelines regarding workers.

As of 14 March 2021, Turkey has 2,879,390 confirmed cases, 2,701,076 recoveries, 29,489 deaths, and a death rate of 343 per million people, the 66th highest rate globally.

The resulting wave of infections never came close to overwhelming the Turkish health system, which has the highest number of intensive care units in the world at 46.5 beds per 100,000 people (compared to 9.6 in Greece, 11.6 in France, and 12.6 in Italy).

As of March 1, 2021, Turkey's observed case-fatality rate stands at 1.06%. This low (compared to other countries) case-fatality rate has generated various explanations including the relative rarity of nursing homes, favorable demographics, long legacy of contact tracing, high number of intensive care units, universal health care, and a lockdown regime that led to a higher proportion of positive cases among working-age adults.

Total Global Deaths from Covid-19: 2,657,629

Total Global Cases of Covid-19: 120,105,958

Countries with most cases of Covid-19:

29,478,109 USA

11,483,370 Brazil

11,385,339 India

4,350,728 Russia

4,276,828 United Kingdom

4,132,085 France

3,238,394 Italy

3,195,062 Spain

2,894,893 Turkey

2,585,206 Germany

2,303,144 Colombia

2,195,722 Argentina

2,166,290 Mexico

1,917,527 Poland

1,754,933 Iran

1,529,420 South Africa

1,516,865 Ukraine

1,425,044 Indonesia

1,412,406 Peru

1,402,420 Czechia

1,178,444 Netherlands

916,315 Canada

896,231 Chile

862,681 Romania

820,789 Israel

814,513 Portugal

808,283 Belgium

763,085 Iraq

712,527 Sweden

626,893 Philippines

607,453 Pakistan

573,815 Switzerland

559,168 Bangladesh

524,196 Hungary

520,911 Serbia

495,464 Austria

488,937 Morocco

486,470 Jordan

447,979 Japan

428,295 United Arab Emirates

419,953 Lebanon

382,752 Saudi Arabia

347,919 Panama

337,960 Slovakia

324,971 Malaysia

303,270 Belarus

302,221 Ecuador

278,557 Bulgaria

275,310 Nepal

275,148 Georgia

274,541 Kazakhstan

259,389 Bolivia

251,174 Croatia

246,299 Dominican Republic

242,124 Tunisia

240,671 Azerbaijan

227,316 Ireland

222,281 Greece

221,763 Denmark

211,602 West Bank and Gaza

210,855 Kuwait

209,093 Costa Rica

205,644 Lithuania

205,324 Moldova

200,579 Slovenia

190,924 Egypt

182,881 Guatemala

180,014 Paraguay

178,702 Armenia

178,277 Honduras

176,618 Ethiopia

170,733 Qatar

160,657 Nigeria

147,423 Oman

146,080 Libya

145,379 Venezuela

144,831 Bosnia and Herzegovina

142,147 Burma

131,001 Bahrain

118,017 Albania

115,265 Algeria

113,967 Kenya

112,930 North Macedonia

101,408 China

96,017 Korea, South

93,959 Latvia

87,985 Ghana

87,907 Sri Lanka

86,917 Kyrgyzstan

86,086 Estonia

84,950 Zambia

84,163 Montenegro

80,734 Norway

80,678 Uzbekistan

77,787 Kosovo

71,691 Uruguay

67,334 Finland

64,516 Mozambique

62,377 El Salvador

62,206 Cuba

60,117 Singapore

57,926 Luxembourg

55,985 Afghanistan

41,424 Namibia

40,622 Cameroon

40,581 Uganda

39,651 Cyprus

37,653 Cote d'Ivoire

36,996 Senegal

36,484 Zimbabwe

34,999 Botswana

32,789 Malawi

31,305 Jamaica

30,873 Sudan

29,130 Australia

27,077 Congo (Kinshasa)

27,005 Thailand

26,748 Malta

21,572 Maldives

21,380 Angola

21,356 Madagascar

20,186 Rwanda

17,851 Guinea

17,438 Mauritania

17,237 Eswatini

16,945 Gabon

16,478 Syria

16,101 Cabo Verde

13,308 Tajikistan

12,632 Haiti

12,372 Burkina Faso

12,370 Belize

11,289 Andorra

10,530 Lesotho

9,490 South Sudan

9,329 Congo (Brazzaville)

9,190 Somalia

9,160 Guyana

9,024 Suriname

8,913 Mali

8,658 Bahamas

8,183 Togo

7,783 Trinidad and Tobago

6,562 Equatorial Guinea

6,537 Nicaragua

6,501 Benin

6,294 Djibouti

6,083 Iceland

5,023 Central African Republic

4,985 Gambia

4,860 Niger

4,309 Chad

4,151 San Marino

4,083 Mongolia

4,053 Saint Lucia

3,937 Sierra Leone

3,635 Comoros

3,447 Guinea-Bissau

3,421 Barbados

3,315 Seychelles

3,038 Eritrea

2,908 Yemen

2,612 Liechtenstein

2,557 Vietnam

2,461 Burundi

2,430 New Zealand

2,173 Papua New Guinea

2,107 Monaco

2,078 Sao Tome and Principe

2,030 Liberia

1,680 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

1,325 Cambodia

990 Taiwan*

963 Antigua and Barbuda

868 Bhutan

742 Mauritius

712 Diamond Princess

509 Tanzania

203 Timor-Leste

199 Brunei

156 Dominica

148 Grenada

66 Fiji

48 Laos

43 Saint Kitts and Nevis

27 Holy See

18 Solomon Islands

9 MS Zaandam

4 Marshall Islands

3 Samoa

3 Vanuatu

1 Micronesia