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The number of coronavirus cases keeps rising in Argentina, with 30 new
reported cases Friday, brining the tally up to 158, including three
deaths so far. The largest number of cases are in the capital city of
Buenos Aires and the province of Buenos Aires.
A total of around 200 persons were arrested Friday for violating the
nationwide obligatory quarantine announced by President Alberto
Fernández Thursday evening. Among them were 13 people arrested at an
“hotel alojamiento” (Argentina’s equivalent of a “love motel”), a
jogger, a drunk policeman and a doctor who broke her quarantine after
testing positive for the virus in the northern province of Chaco.
Turkey on Friday recorded five more deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing the overall total to nine, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged people not to go out for “non-essential reasons”.
“We have lost five patients who are elderly and with a weak resistance,” Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter.
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