ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued a mandatory confinement order for everyone aged under 20 starting from midnight, as part of tougher measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus in Turkey.
In his television address to nation, Recep Tayyip Erdogan also announced that vehicles would no longer be able to leave or enter 31 towns and cities, including Istanbul and Ankara, for 15 days.
People aged over 65 or those with chronic medical conditions are already subject to mandatory confinement in Turkey.
“Throughout the country, people aged under 20, that is to say born after January 1, 2000, will not be allowed to go out on the street” from midnight, Erdogan said.
Meanwhile, the worldwide number of officially confirmed fatalities from the novel coronavirus rose above 59,000 on Saturday.
More than 1 million declared cases have been registered in 200 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December. Of these cases, at least 228,000 are now considered recovered.
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