Turkey sets shop, bus restrictions as COVID-19 death toll rises to 37

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask walks in a market at Eminonu neighbourhood during the outbreak of coronavirus disease , in Istanbul, Turkey, March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Umit BektasISTANBUL: Turkey imposed restrictions on Tuesday on grocery store opening hours and numbers of shop customers and bus passengers, adding to steps to combat the spread of the coronavirus after the country's death toll from the illness rose to 37.

In the latest moves, the Interior Ministry said grocery stores and supermarkets' opening hours will be limited to between 9am and 9pm , with a maximum of one customer for every 10 square metres of shop space. Separately, the Turkish Competition Board said on Monday night there had been opportunist, excessive food price rises, notably for fruit and vegetable products, and said it would impose severed fines on those found to be responsible.On Monday evening, the health minister said that Turkey will hire 32,000 more medical staff and stop exporting locally made face masks so its own services can use them as the coronavirus spreads across the country.

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