Turkey to return curfew over weekend

Erdogan said the weekend closure would be introduced throughout the holy month of Ramadan and that the police hour would run from 9:00 to 05 a.m.

Turkey had 32.404 new corruption cases in the last 24 hours, the largest number this year, according to current data from the Health Ministry.

The total number of infected since the beginning of the epidemic is 3 million and 240 thousand and 577. In the last 24 hours, 154 people died, bringing the total balance of victims to 32.404.

Istanbul and Ankara are among the cities where there is a high risk of spreading the disease, Erdogan said, adding that 80 per cent of citizens in the country of 84 million people live in high-risk cities.