TURKEY
Turkey gave a two hour notice to millions of residents in Ankara and Istanbul before imposing a two-day lockdown in those cities, according to the New York Times. Videos posted online showed that people rushed to shop for essentials, crowds formed and fights broke out, according to the Times. The number of COVID-19 cases increased by 4,747 in a day and 98 people died, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. The country now has over 47,000 cases, over 1,000 deaths and over 2,400 recoveries, according to the Johns Hopkins dashboard.
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MESSICO
Mexican factory making ventilators for the US is shut down by government after it refused to sell the machines to local hospitals
American-owned Smiths Medical plant in the northern border town of Baja, California, that was making ventilators, was shut down Friday
Gov. Jaimie Bonilla closed down the plant after the company refused to sell the machines to Mexican hospitals to treat coronavirus patients
Bonilla said the firm had continued to operate its local factory as an ‘essential service’, after non-essential plants were ordered closed to combat the pandemic
But Bonilla ordered the plant shuttered because he argued it was providing no such essential service to Mexicans