MP: Health Ministry recorded 20 times more Covid-19 cases in a day than it announced

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The number of new Covid-19 cases in Turkey on September 10 was nearly 20 times more than the official figures announced by the Ministry of Health, according to a document revealed by MP Murat Emir from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).

The document was obtained from the ministry's Laboratory Information Management System and showed that there were 29,377 new cases on that day whereas the Ministry announced 1,512 cases, Emir told Fox TV.

The number of daily tests in the document was 158,022 while the ministry announced 107,702 tests on September 10.

Addressing Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca, Emir said, "If this document is correct, now it's time to disclose the truth to our people."

Emir also alleged that the ministry changed the "number of cases" section in its daily coronavirus table to "number of patients" in order to conceal the real numbers.

Doctors' organization and health workers' unions have also disputed the ministry figures since the start of the outbreak in the country.

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