Istanbul Death Toll Hints Turkey Is Hiding a Wider Coronavirus Calamity - New York Times
Istanbul recorded 2,100 more deaths over recent years between March and April, The Times found, suggesting a hidden toll.
The government announced the country’s first death from Covid-19 on March 17. But the statistics compiled by The Times suggest that even around that time, the number of deaths overall in Istanbul was already considerably higher than historical averages, an indication that the virus had arrived several weeks earlier.
Yet the infections have spread, ballooning in Istanbul and Izmir, big cities with international business and tourism connections, as well as in central cities where 6,000 pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia did not always follow self-isolation rules.
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