The World Health Organization (WHO) praised Turkey’s efforts Saturday to curb the novel coronavirus, stressing it tripled daily number of tests since August.
“TURKEY HAS ENHANCED ITS DAILY TESTING CAPACITY”
“The WHO Regional Office for Europe finds it commendable that Turkey has enhanced its daily testing capacity since August 2020, triplicating it compared to April this year by including testing of asymptomatic individuals in line with its pandemic prevention and control strategy,” WHO Turkey said in a statement.
“This has enabled the health system to reach more people, including those showing no symptoms. At-risk individuals, suspected and probable cases and close contacts of a confirmed person have been prioritized for testing,” it added.
The statement stressed that testing is a critical public health measure to understand where coronavirus is and take action to contain it, particularly tracing contacts and isolating positive cases.
“Turkey has been isolating all coronavirus positive cases, regardless of their symptoms; this is recommended to break the chain of transmission,” it said.