Parks, Beaches Prepared for Social Distancing

Photos: AA, İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality

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İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has started to set up "social distance circles" in the city's parks as part of the measures against coronavirus ahead of the summer.

Photos shared by the municipality today (May 26) show that circles were drawn on the grass on Caddebostan coastline, a popular recreation area on the Asian side of the metropolis. The circles have a radius of 2.4 meters and are 1.8 meters away from one another, the municipality stated.

Other parks on both sides of the city will follow Caddebostan, it noted. Parks, coastlines and beaches are currently closed due to the pandemic but are expected to be opened in the coming weeks.

The western province of İzmir was the first to introduce the "social distance circles" to keep people from close contact with one another.

In the south, preparations have also begun for the summer as municipal workers in Antalya, a Mediterranean city that attracts the most foreign tourists after İstanbul.

Municipal workers have set up places for sunbeds to maintain social distance between people on the city's Konyaaltı Beach. Also, warning signs about social distance were hung around the beach. (HA/VK)