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Here is your 15 minutes wrap-up for the highlights from Turkey and all around the World. 1. CORONA CASES IN TURKEY AND IN THE WORLD Turkey •
Death Toll Due to Coronavirus Increased To 425 o Fahrettin Koca, Minister of Health, has stated that 69 people lost their lives in the last 24 hours due to Covid-19, while total death toll is 425. Minister Koca also expressed that a scientist from the Science Board got coronavirus as well. (Turkish)
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President Erdoğan Announced New Measures o President Tayyip Erdoğan has announced the new measures in the fight against coronavirus. Within the scope of measures, 31 cities were closed to vehicle entry – exit. Curfew has been applied to people below the age of 20 and wearing mask in public places became compulsory. (Turkish)
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Abdi İbrahim Started Production of The Drug That Is Recommended For Covid-19 Treatment o Abdi İbrahim has realized the first party production of a drug that is observed to be providing positive result against new type coronavirus in the researches and delivered to the Ministry of Health. (Turkish)
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New Cooperation From Sanofi In The Vaccine Against Covid-19 o David Loew, Director of Global Vaccines Business Unit at Sanofi, said “we believe that mRNA platform of Translate Bio, which has sufficient installed production capacity, will help us meeting the possible strong demand towards vaccine.” (Turkish)
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Domestic Flights Are Suspended Until April 20 o Turkish Airlines has announced that domestic flights have been suspended until April 20. (Turkish)
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Confirmed Global Cases Pass One Million o More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic. Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. (English)
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More Than 6,500 Dead Since March 1 in France o In the past 24 hours, 588 people have died from the Covid-19 in the hospital. If resuscitation services have never been so saturated, the number of people who are admitted daily has been falling for a few days. (French)
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Coronavirus Sparks A 'War For Masks' As Accusations Fly o As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across Europe and the United States, a global scramble for protective equipment such as masks and gloves is underway.
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In France they are calling it the "guerre des masques" -- the war of the masks. (English) •
Prince Charles Opens New Coronavirus Hospital, Boris Johnson Will Stay In Isolation o Prince Charles will open the new NHS Nightingale hospital at the ExCeL conference centre in London Docklands on Friday, which will eventually be capable of providing support for up to 4,000 coronavirus patients if required. (English) o UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will stay in self-isolation because he is still showing symptoms of Covid-19. Friday was expected to be Johnson's final day in self-quarantine, after he tested positive for the virus last week. But Johnson said he still has a temperature and will remain isolated, as per the country's guidelines (English) o Britain’s economy looks set for a slump that in the short term could be deeper than during the depression of the 1930s, as a survey showed the coronavirus crisis caused a record downturn among services and manufacturing firms in March. (English)
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Trump Negative For Coronavirus (Again), Americans Encouraged To Wear Masks o More than 1,000 US service members have coronavirus. At least 1,052 US service members have tested positive for Covid-19 as of this number. This includes one death announced earlier this week. There are now at least 1,752 positive cases across the Department of Defense. (English) o President Donald Trump said he underwent a second coronavirus test on Thursday, using a new diagnostic that produced a result in less than 15 minutes, and it determined he has not been infected. (English) o The Trump administration on Thursday looked set to join local officials in advising Americans to wear masks when venturing out during the still-exploding coronavirus pandemic, as the U.S. death toll rose by 1,000 in a single day for the first time. (English)
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China's Wuhan Disinfects Airport As Operations Soon To Resume o Wuhan, the Chinese city hardest hit by the novel coronavirus outbreak, conducted disinfection Friday on the local airport as operations will soon resume on April 8 when the city lifts its travel restrictions. (English)
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China Pursues Global Leadership Ambitions o Beijing is bolstering its soft power and taking the lead in a global response to the coronavirus public health crisis. The moves come as China’s daily number of new infections decline while those in the U.S. rise. (English)
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The Greek Government Sets Additional Goals In Finance o The Minister of Finance, Mr Tsaikouras, announced that the Government’s goal is to continue to support workers and businesses for next month May by reducing taxes. In the meantime the budget was increased by 5 billion Euros. (Greek) o The Ministry of Labour implements a telecommunication program for 180.000 scientists to attend a 100 hour seminar for €600. (Greek) o 99 new cases have been tested positive bringing the total of confirmed cases to 1613 and deaths to 63. (Greek)
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Russia Landed: Flights Have Been Suspended Due To Rapid Increase Of Infected Cases o Russia confirmed 601 new coronavirus infections on Friday, bringing the country’s official number of cases up to 4,149. (English) o Russia is ready to cooperate with Saudi Arabia and the United States to cut oil production, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. (English)
2. MARKETS •
Dow Falls Slightly Amid Volatile Trading On Wall Street o Stocks fell slightly on Friday to end another volatile week of trading as investors weighed a massive drop in U.S. jobs along with a spike in oil prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid about 360.91 points lower in wild trading. The S&P 500 dipped 1.5 %, while the Nasdaq Composite also pulled back 1.5 %. (English)
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Stocks Making The Biggest Moves In The Premarket o Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Disney, 3M, Tesla, Apple, Peloton & more. (English)
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European Shares Dip As Corporate Pain From Coronavirus Outbreak Grows o European shares ended down on Friday. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was down 0.2%. Zurich Insurance Group AG, AXA SA, Munich Re and Prudential fell between 1.9% and 4.2% after the European Union’s insurance regulator asked insurers and reinsurers to temporarily suspend dividends and share buybacks. H&M, the world’s second-biggest clothing retailer, reported a 46% plunge in March sales and said it expected a loss in its fiscal second quarter. (English)
3. BUSINESS WORLD •
No Return to Normal Business Before 2022 At Best In Tourism o Hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the hotel industry cannot regain its level of activity in 2019 before 2022, according to the STR statistical study group and the specialized firm In Extenso. (French)
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Global Concern Over Future Drug Shortages o Beyond the treatments associated with Covid-19, many products are affected due to the pandemic and poor management of supply chains in health sector. (French)
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US Jobless Claims Could Soon Exceed 8 Million, Economist Projects o The number of weekly unemployment claims filed in the U.S. could soon exceed 8 million as the fallout from widespread shutdowns amid the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen, one economist told CNBC on Friday. In the week ending March 28, 6,648,000 Americans filed for unemployment, doubling the previous week’s 3.28 million figure which was itself a record high by a significant margin. (English)
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Oil Prices March Higher As OPEC Calls For Emergency Meeting On Monday o OPEC will meet on Monday with Russia and other oil producers in the hope of agreeing supply cuts and ending a brutal price war. The United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Mexico could be invited, according to reports. The final list of invitees has not yet been set, they said. (English)
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Chinese Firms Race To Supply Life-Saving Ventilators As Global Demand Surges o Analytics firm GlobalData predicted that about 880,000 more ventilators are in demand globally amid the pandemic. Ventilator manufacturers across the world are running full-steam to meet the surging demand. China, one of the largest ventilator producers, has joined the global fight against COVID-19. (English)
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Entrepreneurs Combat with Coronavirus o Bill Gates will provide billions of dollars of finance new factories for 7 potential Coronavirus vaccines. (Turkish) o Estimote launches wearables for workplace-level contact tracing for COVID-19. (English) o Elon Musk’s SpaceX bans employees from using Zoom over ‘significant privacy and security concerns’ (English)
5. ARTS & CULTURE •
Getty Trust Is Giving $10m Fund, How Relevant ‘Empty New York’ Series Is Now o The bustling streets, bars, subways, and tourist attractions of New York City have largely gone quiet over the past few weeks, as residents across the five boroughs have largely stayed indoors to prevent the further spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19). (English) o The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that it was creating a $10m fund to provide economic relief to small and midsize non-profit museums and other visual arts organisations in Los Angeles County that are being affected by the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. (English) o How can photographers capture human connection in the age of coronavirus? Like many photographers around the world, Gilberston is facing up to the many ways in which the global pandemic has impacted his work. (English)
6. SPORTS •
How F1 Teams Are Fighting Coronavirus o Formula One teams based in the UK are racing to produce thousands of ventilators desperately needed by the country's National Health Service. Built for speed, and with engineering expertise to spare, the racing teams are proving to be powerful weapons in the fight against coronavirus. (English)
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“Premier League Players Should Take A Pay Cut!” says Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock o Premier League footballers should "take a pay cut and play their part" during the coronavirus pandemic, says health secretary Matt Hancock. Some clubs have furloughed non-playing staff but not looked at players' wages. (English)
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A Tale of Tansformation: NBA Launches NBA2K Sundays Weekly Series With Real Madrid Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois o During the current suspension of the 2019-20 NBA season that initially saw a record 48 primetime games scheduled in Europe on Saturdays and Sundays, Belgium National team goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois will host a weekly series of NBA2K20 games against different European sports personalities, celebrities and influencers as a part of the #NBATogether initiative. (English)
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The coronavirus pandemic came at the worst possible time for former ATP World No 1 Andy Murray, according to his coach Jamie Delgado. o The double Wimbledon champion was hoping to make his first appearances of 2020 at the Miami Open after being forced to miss the early months of the year as he recovers from a series of hip problems that have blighted him since 2017. (English)
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Remco Evenepoel, Greg Van Avermaet and Jasper Stuyven will be among 13 riders competing in a ‘virtual’ edition of the Tour of Flanders. o The 2020 edition of the Spring Classic was due to take place on Sunday but, having been postponed because of the coronavirus, riders will now compete on rollers at home while wearing smart trainers that can replicate the demands of climbs and cobbles. (English)
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Tour De France Going Ahead Would Be 'Crime Against Humanity', Says Former Minister o Allowing the Tour de France to go ahead as scheduled despite the COVID-19 pandemic would be "madness" and a "crime against humanity", former French sports minister David Douillet has said. (English)
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'Iron Lady' Hosszu Sees Positives İn Olympic Postponement Katinka Hosszu, Hungary's 'Iron Lady' of swimming, will be 32 by the time the postponed Tokyo Olympics come around but rivals expecting to see signs of rust by 2021 could still be disappointed. The triple Olympic gold medallist, who has already said she wants to stretch her career out to the 2024 Paris Games, reckons they should not get their hopes up despite the extra year's delay. "I don’t feel old. I know it’s not very common to swim where I am at 30 but I still feel like I learned so much about how I need to prepare and what I need to do and how to race," she told Reuters in a telephone interview on Friday. (English)
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No Leagues Until the Beginning of June o According to the statement released by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF), it is stated as “when the preparation process of our clubs is taken into consideration, leagues may be played in the beginning of June at the earliest.” The opinion of the UEFA has been emphasized on the statement. (Turkish)
7. REGULATORY UPDATES • Curious About Current Regulation Updates? Follow Our Tax Circulars: o Click the link for our Tax Circulars. (English)
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