Turkey has long been accused of hiding the true coronavirus figures and recent months have seen the country change it easy of reporting the virus counts. Experts feared that this will result in a surge of cases in the country if Ankara continues to have a loose approach and their concerns seem to be true. A report in the Associated press tells that the country has been witnessing an alarming surge of cases of covid-19. This issue was raised by the opposition and medical groups when they realized that Turkey has not been taking any measures to control the virus spread and in fact it is choosing to hide the actual data. The biggest concern due to this surge is that the medical system of Turkey is quickly exhausting. This week, there was a change made in the way Turkey has been reporting its coronavirus cases. The President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government earlier used to just reveal the number of patients being treated for symptoms but now it has started reporting positive cas...
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