Turkish Airlines Cancels Flights to New York

* Photo: Dursun Aydemir / AA

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Turkish Airlines (THY) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bilal Ekşi has shared a brief message on Twitter and announced that THY flights to New York have been cancelled amid novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

"The last update: As of March 27, 2020 at 23.59 local time in Turkey till April 17, 2020, only limited international flights will continue. You can follow the latest status of these flights on the link below. Accordingly, the flights to New York have been cancelled", Ekşi has announced on Twitter:

Son güncelleme:

27 Mart 2020 saat 23.59 (TSİ) itibarıyla 17 Nisan 2020 tarihine kadar sadece sınırlı dış hatta seferler devam edecek olup; bu hatlar için güncel durumu aşağıdaki adresten takip ediniz.

Buna göre Newyork hattı iptal edilmiştir. https://t.co/Udl8S2PW8u

— Bilal EKŞİ (@BilalEksiTHY) March 26, 2020

As of March 27, the THY will only fly to Washington (US), Chicago (US), Hong Kong, Moscow (Russia) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).

Number of cases in the US has exceeded China

According to the data shared by Johns Hopkins University, the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 around the world is over half a million.

With 82,179 confirmed cases, the US has exceeded both China, where the virus originated, and Italy, the European country affected by the virus most.

In the US, the highest death toll from coronavirus has been recorded in New York. While 100 people lost their lives in a day in New York, bringing the death toll to 385, there are 37 thousand 258 confirmed cases so far. 

* Click here to see the full list of cancelled/suspended THY flights.

(TP/SD)