400,000 gowns for NHS staff are set to arrive from Turkey tomorrow

Here are the NHS workers MailOnline understands to be among those who have died during the coronavirus pandemic so far: Dr Krishan Arora, general practitioner  Dr Krishan Arora is the latest medical worker to die of Covid-19 bringing the total to 54  Dr Krishan Arora is a doctor who is believed to have died after … Read more

Turkey flies a second planeload of personal protective equipment including masks and suits to UK

Turkey has sent a second planeload of emergency equipment to Britain to help medics fighting the deadly coronavirus. The first flight from Ankara took off on Friday carrying PPE including surgical masks, N95 industrial masks and hazmat suits, with a second flight landing on Saturday at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, the defence ministry said. The items were … Read more

Pensioner, 93, walks out of intensive care in Turkey

Pensioner, 93, walks out of intensive care in Turkey after recovering from coronavirus following ten days of treatment  Alye Gunduz, 93, walked out of intensive care of a Istanbul hospital yesterday  The novel Covid-19 coronavirus risks hitting the capital, and Turkey, hard  Suffering from hypertension, Gunduz, a farmer from Turkey’s southeastern city of Batman, was … Read more

Pensioner, 93, walks out of intensive care in Turkey

Pensioner, 93, walks out of intensive care in Turkey after recovering from coronavirus following ten days of treatment  Alye Gunduz, 93, walked out of intensive care of a Istanbul hospital yesterday  The novel Covid-19 coronavirus risks hitting the capital, and Turkey, hard  Suffering from hypertension, Gunduz, a farmer from Turkey’s southeastern city of Batman, was … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Turkey sends planeloads of emergency equipment

‘After darkness, there is the much brighter sun’: Turkey sends planeloads of emergency equipment including masks and protective suits to Britain in poetry-inscribed boxes to help UK medics battling coronavirus First flight from Ankara took off today carrying personal protective equipment  A second flight is due to take off on Saturday, according to the defence … Read more

Behold the Museum Hotel in Antakya, Turkey, which ‘floats’ above the ruins of ancient civilisations

Ruinous hotels aren’t typically recommended – but an exception can definitely be made for this one for a post-lockdown escape. Behold the one-of-a-kind Museum Hotel in Antakya, Turkey, a lodge for wannabe Tomb Raiders that ‘floats’ above the ruins of over a dozen civilisations dating back to the third century BC, which were discovered in … Read more

TV star Laurence Fox goes cold turkey (almost) at the Barberyn retreat in Sri Lanka

The month began with gin, and it wasn’t long before strange, melancholic headaches became a regular feature. By the third week of this particular month (I’m not saying which), things needed to change. That’s how I find myself at the Barberyn retreat and spa in Beruwala, an unfussy little town on Sri Lanka’s west coast, … Read more