This article documents the timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.
The Ministry of Health set up the Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board. [1] It consists of 26 members specialized in Chest Diseases, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology. [2] The number of board members increased later to 31 with the joining of expert academics in Virology, Internal medicine and Intensive care medicine. [1] The board works out guidelines for the treatment by medicals and measures to be followed by the public, and updates them in context of the disease's course in the country. [2] [3]
The strategy of ordering people over 65 to stay home seems to have worked. The most vulnerable escaped the worst of the pandemic, while those infected, mostly working-age adults, generally recovered.