{"id":15625,"date":"2020-07-10T10:48:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T05:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15625"},"modified":"2020-07-10T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T05:48:39","slug":"rising-temperatures-will-not-curb-covid-19-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15625","title":{"rendered":"Rising temperatures will not curb COVID-19: expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DIYARBAKIR, Turkey\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hotter temperatures will not help slow the spread of the novel corona virus, according to an expert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you maintain social distance and wear a mask, the infection rate of the disease may decrease, but the temperature alone does not work,&#8221; Recep Tekin, an expert in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology at Dicle University in southeastern Turkey, told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to the hot Mediterranean climate in southern Turkey, Tekin highlighted that the number of cases there has risen recently despite the high temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If high temperatures had stemmed the virus completely, we should not have seen cases in Saudi Arabia or Africa,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Noting there will be hotter days in the coming weeks, he said people should not behave by relying on this but wear a mask, practice social distancing and observe hand hygiene regardless of the temperature.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, Turkey had registered a total of 5,282 deaths due to the coronavirus, while over 187,511 people have recovered from the disease. Currently, there are more than 208,938 confirmed cases in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Since originating in Wuhan, China last December, the pandemic has claimed over 551,000 lives in 188 countries and regions.<\/p>\n<p>More than 12.1 million cases have been reported worldwide, while over 6.65 million people have recovered, according to figures compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIYARBAKIR, Turkey\u00a0 Hotter temperatures will not help slow the spread of the novel corona virus, according to an expert. &#8220;If you maintain social distance and wear a mask, the infection rate of the disease may decrease, but the temperature alone does not work,&#8221; Recep Tekin, an expert in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology at Dicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15627,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625\/revisions\/15627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}