The students who were removed from their dormitories where the people coming from Omra were placed, stating that they were removed from their rooms with the pretext of disinfecting the dorm rooms, said: "Our belongings are still in there. Many of our friends had to spend the night out on the street."
Economist Bahadır Özgür, stating that a more unstable economy will be faced globally because the coronavirus brought the production in China to a halt and that will increase the costs, said Turkey will also be greatly effected by this.
TUHAYDER manager Nazım Adıgüzel drawing attention to the prisons which are a risk group in terms of the spread of the coronavirus, said the areas used by the guards are being disinfected while the wards of the prisoners aren't.
The planned parliamentary elections in Syria have been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to official information, there are no infections in Syria yet, SOHR, however, reports 113 cases. There are no testing possibilities in NE Syria.
Number of new COVID-19 cases is 12 while total number is 18, says country’s health minister Fahrettin Koca.
Turkish directorate of religious affairs said in a statement regarding Umrah that the departures from Turkey to Umrah have not been allowed since February 27 2020.
The vehicles reaching to Turkey's Habur Border Gate from the buffer zone between the Turkey and the Federal Kurdistan Region began to be disinfected after 15 days.
The funeral of the firefighter Mehmet Can Daşdemir, who were stuck under the avalanche, which had caused the death of 41 people in Van's Bahçesaray highway, was reached after 40 days.
Ramazan Öztürk, a journalist, who announced the Halabja massacre, which was engraved to the memories with the death of more than 5 thousand people, with his “Silent Witness” photograph, expressed the brutality over which 32 years has passed, saying, “It was a human drama too big to fit in two lines of a newspaper”.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca spoke regarding to those who were put under quarantine after they returned from Umrah: "The suspected people taken to the hospital as soon as they arrive and the tests are performed".
A military operation was launched in 3 rural neighborhoods of Lice.
Turkish Airlines (THY) has decided to stop its flights departing from 9 countries on March 18 due to Coronavirus.
In Van, where anxiety increased due to the high numbers of Coronavirus cases in their border Iran, the citizens said that the measures were not taken neither on time nor adequately, and that they do not find the statements of the Ministry of Health realistic.
In the investigation started to find the whereabouts of Mehmet Bal, who has been missing for 52 days after coming to İstanbul from Batman to visit his son in prison, it was decided that "there is lack of grounds for legal action".
The coronavirus test of US President Donald Trump turned out to be negative.