ANKARA
Large-scale production of Turkish hospital respirators is one of the nation’s next steps against coronavirus, Turkey’s health minister announced Monday.
“We’re starting the mass production of domestic [respirator] devices,” Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told reporters in the capital Ankara, after an hours-long meeting of a committee tackling the outbreak.
Other steps in Turkey’s all-out efforts include the appointment of 32,000 new healthcare personnel, he said.
He added that Turkey has imported a promising medicine from China to provide quicker help to COVID-19 patients.
“In the coming days we will be announcing the number of recovering cases every day. I
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