6 hours agoCOVID's new type: Turkey sets stops for passengers from Britain, Ireland seeks testing
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Turkey has halted the British's entry after the discovery of 15 cases of a new version of coronary to passengers from Great Britain, while Ireland has warned it will replace the measure of ban on January 6th with stricter tests. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 15 passengers were [...]
Turkey has halted the British's entry after the discovery of 15 cases of a new version of coronary to passengers from Great Britain, while Ireland has warned it will replace the measure of ban on January 6th with stricter tests.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 15 passengers were isolated as well as people who had been in contact with them.
“The situation is under control,” he said, adding that the “intervention in Turkey from Great Britain has been temporarily suspended”.
As a result of COVID, 212 people have died in Turkey in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Health Ministry on Friday, bringing the death to 21.093.
The number of new infected people in this period is 12,203, and since the beginning of the pandemic more than 2.2 million.
In Turkey, a closure is in effect, but it will be removed Monday at 5: 00 a.m., although Ankara has imposed a weekend curfew and has limited the functioning of hotel facilities only to food distribution.
Ireland plans to lift the ban on travel from Great Britain on January 6th and replace it with stricter test measures, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said today.
Ireland halted arrivals by plane and ferry from Great Britain on December 21st. Some 30,000 people have travelled to Ireland from Britain in the last two weeks during which a new version of the Coronobrus has spread throughout Britain.
Passengers from Great Britain must show a negative test for coronarys no older than 72 hours from 6 January, Coveney told Irish Independent.
Their movement will be restricted for at least five days after its arrival, and they will be able to move more freely only when they receive a negative second test result.
COVID-19 is rapidly spreading back to Ireland, and authorities said they have uncovered seven cases of the new version in 77 positive tests.
The new version of COVIDD-19 is evidently more contagious than the previous version of the Coronavirus, and a new study has shown that this new version increases reproduction, or so - called R number, by 0.4 to 0.7, reports the BBC today.
