Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday announced a full lockdown from April 29 to May 17 to fight a surging third wave of coronavirus infections. Turkey logged 37,312 new COVID-19 infections and 353 deaths in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed, sharply down from mid-April but still the world's fourth highest number of cases and the worst on a per-capita basis among major nations.

Turkey announces full lockdown from April 29 to curb COVID-19 spread

Turkey has overtaken Iran, which was so far worst-affected coronavirus-hit country in the Middle East as positive cases rose to 82,329 on Saturday. In the last 24 hours, 3,783 tested positive of coronavirus in Turkey, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.

Turkey overtakes Iran with over 82,000 coronavirus cases

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Turkey announces full lockdown from April 29 to curb COVID-19 spread

Turkey overtakes Iran with over 82,000 coronavirus cases