FILE PHOTO: A man smokes outside a closed bar, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Istanbul, Turkey February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File Photo
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish restaurants reopened and many children returned to school on Tuesday after the government announced steps to ease COVID-19 curbs even as cases edged higher, raising concerns in the top medical association.
On Monday evening, President Tayyip Erdogan lifted weekend lockdowns in low- and medium-risk cities and limited lockdowns to Sundays in those deemed higher risk under what he called a "controlled normalisation".
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