ISTANBUL — Most Turks marked a national holiday under a full lockdown today as the country fights to contain one of the world’s fastest-spreading outbreaks of the novel coronavirus that has infected more than 100,000 people.
The country’s death toll from COVID-19 reached 2,491 after 115 people died in the last 24 hours, according to a tweet from Health Minister Fahrettin Koca. Another 3,116 people were diagnosed with the virus, bringing the total cases to 101,790. The number of daily deaths in Turkey has been declining each day since Saturday.
