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Coronavirus: How Turkey took control of Covid-19 emergency - BBC News

Coronavirus: How Turkey took control of Covid-19 emergency
By Orla Guerin
BBC International Correspondent, Istanbul

Turkey has a lower recorded death toll than many other countries in Europe
Covid-19 came late to Turkey - on 11 March - but soon singed every corner of the country. Within a month all 81 provinces had been affected.

It was the one of the fastest growing outbreaks in the world - worse than China or the UK. There were fears that the death toll would soar turning Turkey into another Italy, which was then the hardest hit country.

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