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Türkiye’s Fight Against COVID-19 Pandemic

UK adopted this idea and did not choose to act. However, while the disease
continued to spread rapidly, it led to the start of deaths on the one hand and
made the health system inoperable due to high demand on the other hand.
Even the patients, who would not face the risk of death if certain treatments
could be applied under convenient conditions, were put in a risky position
when the health system weakened due to the intensity.

Therefore, these countries had to bring back their social isolation measures
by avoiding the results of this approach. Since it was too late when they decided
to do this, these countries faced unsuccessful results because their response to
the pandemic started after it had already spread rapidly.

Türkiye, on the other hand, has never adopted the herd immunity approach,
on the contrary, it tried to prevent the outbreak from entering the country
by implementing strict quarantine practices even when the outbreak had not
yet come to Türkiye and when the outbreak came to the country, it put social
isolation measures into practice step-by-step. For instance, it analyzed its
intensive care units, identified the hospitals envisaged for the response and
collected all the possibly useful drugs from pharmacies and stocked them
before the virus had come to the country.
9.2. Examples from EU Countries

The European Union countries such as Italy, Spain, France and Belgium
are considered as a group of countries that were late in taking the necessary
precautions in the early days of the pandemic and started to implement
measures only after the pandemic had already spread, with Germany being an
exception.

9.3. Examples from Other Countries

Russia started fighting against the outbreak after mid-April and benefited
from other countries’ experiences and immediately implemented social
isolation measures. Russia has so far adopted a mixed approach like Türkiye
and Germany.

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