About 3,500 health workers in Turkey infected with corona, 24 of them died

The Union issued a statement, in which it said that in total, 3,474 health care workers were infected with Covid-19 epidemic, including 1,307 doctors, and 24 of them died among them 14 doctors according to the same source.

The epidemic has resulted in killing more than 2,200 people in Turkey out of 95,000 infected people, about half of them are in Istanbul according to the latest toll released on Tuesday evening.

The Doctors Union of Turkey said that most of the infected in the health care work in Istanbul; the largest city in Turkey, which includes about 16 million people.

A four-day compulsory quarantine will be imposed on 31 largest cities in the country from Thursday to combat the outbreak of the recent Corona.

Compulsory isolation is imposed on the residents of 31 major cities in Turkey during the weekend, but this Thursday is an official holiday in Turkey, so the authorities decided to impose a curfew on Thursday and extend it to Friday as well.

The decision to impose isolation at the end of each week was taken on April 11, as the Covid-19 epidemic was accelerating in the country.

The old people over the age of 65, persons suffering from chronic diseases and individuals under the age of twenty have been being subjected to a mandatory isolation since several weeks.

D.H