Authorities in Istanbul on Saturday announced a ban on weddings and other events in Turkey's largest city as the number of daily coronavirus and deaths across the country reached its highest level in more than two months.
The Istanbul governor's office said indoor
weddings, engagement parties and circumcision ceremonies would be banned’ by
Monday. It says children and people over the age of 60 will be barred’ from outdoor
events that are still ahead.
The bans were issued just hours before
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 1,549 new cases of the coronavirus had been
diagnosed in Turkey, the most daily since mid-June. The highest death toll
since mid-May was 29, he said.
"The number of patients in critical
condition is steadily rising. We can't take steps to control the
epidemic," Koca said in a tweet.
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