{"id":21104,"date":"2020-03-18T11:36:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T06:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/turkey-confirms-first-coronavirus-death\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T06:06:35","slug":"turkey-confirms-first-coronavirus-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=21104","title":{"rendered":"Turkey confirms first coronavirus death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greaterkashmir.com\/news\/world\/turkey-confirms-first-coronavirus-death\/\">GK News Network<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey has confirmed its first novel coronavirus-related death as the number of cases in the country rose to 98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, I lost my first patient in our fight against coronavirus,\u201d Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told a televised press conference on Tuesday, adding that the victim was an 89-year-old man who contracted the virus from an employee with connections to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister also said the number of cases had risen from 47 to 98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe big majority of those who tested positive are recovering,\u201d Koca said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey has announced a series of preventive measures in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, including travel restrictions on 20 countries and the closure of schools and universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities on Monday suspended collective mosque prayers until further notice and ordered the closure of public spaces, including cinemas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>(This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GK News Network Turkey has confirmed its first novel coronavirus-related death as the number of cases in the country rose to 98. \u201cToday, I lost my first patient in our fight against coronavirus,\u201d Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told a televised press conference on Tuesday, adding that the victim was an 89-year-old man who contracted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}