{"id":24548,"date":"2020-04-27T22:51:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/erdogan-says-turkey-will-send-medical-gear-to-united-states\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T22:51:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:21:22","slug":"erdogan-says-turkey-will-send-medical-gear-to-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24548","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan says Turkey will send medical gear to United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The UN warns pandemic, which has killed more than 208,000 people, may cause a &#8216;human rights disaster&#8217;.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-turkey\/erdogan-says-turkey-will-send-medical-gear-to-united-states-idUSKCN2292GL\">Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ISTANBUL:<\/strong> President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will send medical gear including protective suits and masks to the United States on Tuesday to help its efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt a time when even developed countries are asking for Turkey\u2019s support, we have offered our support to a wide geography, from the Balkans to Africa,\u201d Erdogan told reporters following a cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost recently, we are sending medical aid to the United States on Tuesday, consisting of surgical masks, N95 masks, hazmat suits and disinfectants,\u201d Erdogan said, adding that the shipment would be delivered via a Turkish military plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erdogan also said a three-day lockdown would be imposed in 31 cities as of Friday, May 1, and that weekend lockdowns would continue until after Eid al-Fitr in late May. He said a schedule for returning to normal would be announced soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey\u2019s confirmed cases of COVID-19 increased by 2,131 in the past 24 hours, and 95 more people have died, taking the death toll to 2,900, Health Ministry data showed on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN warns pandemic, which has killed more than 208,000 people, may cause a &#8216;human rights disaster&#8217;. Reuters ISTANBUL: President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will send medical gear including protective suits and masks to the United States on Tuesday to help its efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak. \u201cAt a time when even developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24548","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\/24548","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=24548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24548\/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=24548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}