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Turkey’s first coronavirus case has been seen in ıstanbul.

First coronavirus case in Turkey seen in Istanbul : Since the beginning of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, Turkey has managed to keep the virus away until now. However the Ministry of Health reported country’s first coronavirus today saying that the test result of a suspected patient came out positive.

Although the Ministry of Health would not share informations about the first coronavirus patient in Turkey, some sources claimed the case was seen at a public hospital in Istanbul, Turkey’s most populated city with roundly 20 million people living in.

Following the official statement made by the Ministry of Health, Turkish social media users urged officials to take necessary measures in order to prevent the virus from spreading.