News archive of May 2020

Restaurants, cafes and parks opened on June 1 while the last inter-city travel curbs have been removed as Turkey enters the phase of "new normal" amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The government has been gradually rolling back the restrictions for some time initially imposed to slow the spread of COVID-19, which has infected more than 160,000 and killed over 4,500 people in the country.

Turkish authorities on May 30 sent official orders on recent decisions to ease restrictions related to the novel coronavirus as the country made advances in its fight against the pandemic.

The Interior Ministry ordered local officials to allow restaurants, cafes, patisseries, coffee shops, and similar venues to open daily until 10.00 p.m. local time, as of June 1.

The Turkish president on May 30 extended condolences for the two soldiers and a police officer killed in southeastern Turkey.

A Turkish official late on May 30 said Turkey would do all it can to prevent the breaking of brotherhood and peace between Turks and members of minority communities after a recent hate attack on an Armenian church in Istanbul.

After nearly two decades of effort, Elon Musk's aerospace company, SpaceX, successfully launched its first two people into orbit, ushering in a new age of human spaceflight in the United States.

14 newly registered cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria. This was announced by Assoc. Prof. Dimo Dimov.

606 are surveyed. The total number of infected is already 2513. In Sofia the new cases are 3, in Sliven - 4, in Razgrad and Yambol there are two newly infected, in Blagoevgrad, Vidin and Pazardzhik - 1 each.

Greek officials said Saturday that the country will not limit arriving airline passengers next month to people coming from 29 countries but that travelers who departed from places that aren't on the initial list will be subject to mandatory testing for the coronavirus upon arrival and a quarantine period of one or two weeks.

A worker wearing a protective mask sprays disinfectant inside a kindergarten classroom in the suburb of Halandri, northern Athens, Friday. Greece will reopen preschools, kindergartens and primary schools on Monday in the latest round of easing coronavirus pandemic restrictions imposed in March. Classes will have no more than 15 children while the academic year will end on Friday, June 26.

They add that additional EU funds have been provided for that purpose, and Brussels calls on the United States to reconsider the decision to cut ties and finance the World Health Organization.

Since the last report, 3.548 people have been tested.
555 people were hospitalized, and 10 people were on respirators.
The total number of infected is now 11.381, bringing the total number of victims to 242.
The coronavirus mortality rate is 2.13 percent.
6.606 patients recovered.