Covid deaths in the community have fallen

OVER past two weeks there has been a fall in the number of known Covid deaths from the community.

The last two months have seen a large number of members from the Turkish Speaking Community, but as the peak of the wave passed the number started falling over the last two weeks.

In the last week, the number of the known lost to Covid in the community has fallen to 7, a third of the figures from the previous week s number of 21.

Speaking to Londra Gazete President of the Cyprus Islamic Society Hüseyin page Haşim El Bakayi stated that 3 known Turkish Cypriot had lost their life over the past week.

Suleymaniye Mosque, the funeral director Muzaffer Bey told Londra gazette that 4 known members from the community 1 from a Turkish Cypriot community and 4 originate from Turkey.

To date based on the information Londra Gazete has collected since the start of the pandemic the total known deaths in the Turkish Speaking Community has now reached 350, of this total 274 are known from a Turkish Cypriot background and 76 originate from Turkey