WUHAN

"Everyone's talking about the surgical masks," I tell my mom over the phone. It's February, a few days before the first confirmed cases of Covid-19 will appear in Greece, but there's already a debate going on: who should wear masks?

The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic of the coronavirus began, lifted the last restrictions after more than two and a half months of strict quarantine, DPA reported.

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) confirmed on April 7 the third death in the country due to the novel coronavirus.

A 74-year-old TRNC citizen succumbed to the virus in Nicosia, the Health Ministry said in a statement.

The patient suffered from hypertension, ischemic heart disease, and diabetes.

Turkey has subjected lemons to export control amid a rising domestic demand due to the coronavirus pandemic, an official notification said on April 7. 

The restriction beginning Tuesday will continue until the end of this August.

Lemon is mainly being used for the production of cologne, which serves as an alcohol-based disinfectant.

China on April 7 reported no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since it started publishing figures in January, the National Health Commission said.          

Cases in mainland China have been dwindling since March, but the country faces a second wave of infections brought in from overseas, with health officials reporting nearly 1,000 imported cases in total.

One of the latest survivors of the novel coronavirus in Turkey is a 95-year-old man, who was released from the hospital
with applauds in western Izmir city on April 6.

Ismail Kırdar, who was staying at a nursing home, was taken to the hospital due to high fever on March 25. He tested positive for the coronavirus at the hospital.

Turkey's president on April 6 announced that the country would donate medical assistance to Serbia.

He states that they should do so regardless of their political affiliation.
He said that we should just imagine if more than a million pensioners would take to the streets in an hour. "Imagine what that would turn into, it would not be Wuhan, Italy or Spain, but a unique case in the world, all these cases, plus New York and then five times," Vucic said.

Turkey started distributing free face masks to citizens to stem the spread of COVID-19 in the country.

Citizens can apply for free masks through the country's postal services' e-commerce website, ePttAVM.com.

This week, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that people cannot enter shops and marketplaces without face masks.

Hundreds of Muslims returning to Turkey from the Umrah pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia were being housed in student dormitories on April 5 as part of quarantine measures against the novel coronavirus.
A total of 362 passengers went through health checks after arriving at Konya Airport.