Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is paying his second visit to provinces devastated by the Feb. 6 earthquake as search and rescue efforts for buried survivors in the worst disaster in modern Turkish history are winding down.
The Turkish disaster management agency, AFAD, has raised the number of confirmed fatalities from the earthquake in Turkiye to 41,156. That increases the overall death toll in both Turkiye and Syria to 44,844.
The Centre for Disease Prevention and Controls said that "food and water-borne diseases, respiratory infections and vaccine-preventable infections are a risk in the upcoming period, with the potential to cause outbreaks, particularly as survivors are moving to temporary shelters." "We will secure the affected people within our capabilities, but after a while, it is not possible to continue placing families in shelters in order to preserve their health," he said.
"We have nearly $80 million in donations from the private sector in the United States, individuals. When I visited the Turkish Embassy in Washington, I almost couldn't get in the front door because boxes were piled high throughout the driveway to the embassy," Blinken said.NATO says a ship carrying 600 temporary container homes has left Italy and is expected to arrive in Turkiye next week.
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