ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday announced a full lockdown from April 29 to May 17 to fight a surging third wave of coronavirus infections.
The nation of 84 million has seen daily Covid-19 death tolls rise to around 350 — higher than during two previous spikes last year.
Turkey’s 37,312 new infections reported on Monday were the highest in Europe but still down from the peak of nearly 60,000 reported earlier this month.
“We must quickly reduce the number of cases to less than 5,000 a day,” Erdogan said in a televised address.
He said Turkey would enter “a full closure” that requires people to stay indoors without a valid reason and sees all non…
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