Turkey steps up coronavirus measures as death toll hits 4

Turkey confirmed late on March 19 its fourth death related to the coronavirus and the country nearly doubled its confirmed cases to 359, from 191 a day earlier.

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter that an 85-year-old woman died due to the novel coronavirus.

Koca also said that Turkey carried out 1,981 coronavirus tests in the last 24 hours and 168 people have been tested positive.

Earlier on March 19, Koca confirmed the third fatality from the COVID-19, an 80-year-old former commander of the Turkish land forces.

Online access to COVID-19 test results

Health Ministry on March 20 announced that those tested for the novel coronavirus will be able to access their results via an online health database.

The state portal "enabiz.gov.tr" which users can gain access to with a password, gathers patients' medical records, including diagnostic reports, prescribed medication and eases communication with doctors.

The Health Ministry also launched a website, called Corona Information, which helps people assess whether they are at risk or not.

People, who visit the site, need to answer several questions for risk assessment, such as whether they have been to a foreign country over the past 14 days or they traveled abroad, whether they have contacted anyone with respiratory illness or they have any underlying medical conditions and whether they show any symptoms of the coronavirus disease.

Within the first hour after the launch of the website, some 100,000 accessed the site.

The English version of the website is expected to come online soon.

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