Contemporary history

Turkish forces on March 15 destroyed explosives and hideouts used by the PKK terror group in operations across Turkey and in northern Iraq, security sources said.

Nurses in northwestern Turkey fighting the coronavirus pandemic on the front lines said on March 14 they want everyone to follow precautions to reduce the burden on health care professionals.

Turkey marked March 14 Medicine Day (Doctor's Day) this year with additional organizations and with scores of people posting messages, thanking all health workers for their courageous fight against the coronavirus pandemic for over a year.

In many provinces, special memorial services were held for the nearly 400 health workers who lost their lives during the COVID-19 fight.

Health workers in Turkey were touched when they received letters from students praising their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the pandemic completed a year in Turkey, students sent letters to health workers at the Gazi University Hospital in the Turkish capital Ankara.

Online registration system of those who want to get vaccinated with Covid-19 jabs  has started.

This means that the so-called "green corridors" are no longer valid, at least not in the previous form. The "green corridors" are now only for people who have registered in the online system.

The health system in Brazil is on the brink of collapse as pressures from the Covid pandemic show no sign of easing, according to the country's leading public health research institution.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday that the authorities don't consider implementing any lockdown measures for Easter, and the state of alert will be extended this week.      He added that the circulation restrictions during the night could come into force earlier, at 22:00 instead of 23:00, as they currently are.

The four-day journey is the pope’s first abroad since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic

A session of the Crisis Staff for the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, at which new measures are expected to be adopted, has been announced for today.

Ljubljana – It is one year to the day since the first infection with the novel coronavirus was confirmed in Slovenia. More than 192,000 have been confirmed since, and almost 3,900 persons have died of Covid-19. Slovenia has been in the state of epidemic for 60% of the time, with many restrictions remaining in force.