ABC News Online: Turkey's coronavirus cases overtake Iran to become new COVID-19 epicentre in Middle East
Turkey's confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said, overtaking neighbouring Iran for the first time to register the highest total in the Middle East.
An increase of 3,783 cases in the last 24 hours also pushed Turkey's confirmed tally within a few hundred of China, where the novel coronavirus first emerged.
Mr Koca said 121 more people have died, taking the death toll to 1,890.
A total of 10,453 people have recovered from coronavirus so far, and the number of tests carried out over the past 24 hours came to 40,520, the minister said.
The Interior Ministry said it was extending restrictions on travel between 31 cities for a further 15 days starting at midnight on Saturday.
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Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic In The Middle East -- News Updates April 20-21, 2020
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Turkey to release thousands from prison amid Covid-19 crisis -- France 24
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Iran reopens shops, highways amid the coronavirus pandemic -- Al Jazeera
Iran vows to protect people from economic impact of coronavirus -- Al Jazeera
Coronavirus 'disaster in the making' in war-torn Syria -- Al Jazeera
How Syria's war-torn Idlib is dealing with coronavirus -- DW
Syria's divisions damage efforts to mobilise against coronavirus -- Al Jazeera
Syria Kurds set up first coronavirus hospital -- AFP
Kuwait expands curfew, extends public sector work suspension -- Reuters
Protesting in a pandemic: Israelis demonstrate at a distance -- France 24
Yemen 'faces nightmare' as first coronavirus case confirmed -- BBC
Iran reopens shops, highways amid the coronavirus pandemic -- Al Jazeera
Iran vows to protect people from economic impact of coronavirus -- Al Jazeera
Coronavirus 'disaster in the making' in war-torn Syria -- Al Jazeera
How Syria's war-torn Idlib is dealing with coronavirus -- DW
Syria's divisions damage efforts to mobilise against coronavirus -- Al Jazeera
Syria Kurds set up first coronavirus hospital -- AFP
Kuwait expands curfew, extends public sector work suspension -- Reuters
Protesting in a pandemic: Israelis demonstrate at a distance -- France 24
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