Author: GÃœNER, Abdullah Emre; MEMÄ°ÅžOÄžLU, Kemal; BÄ°RÄ°NCÄ°, Åžuayip
Title: Preemptive action saves lives in a pandemic: closing the Grand Bazaar before the COVID-19 infection starts Cord-id: a99zrg1j Document date: 2020_12_17
ID: a99zrg1j
Snippet: In this brief piece which is about the decision to shut down Grand Bazaar, a highly dense shopping area with 10.000 employees and 4000 individual shops after a week of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Turkey. We argue that this pre emptive action taken to shut down the shopping area, after symptoms screening of all individuals and PCR testing when necessary, have limited transmission of COVID-19 in Istanbul. We make the cases that it is important for decision makers to take action swiftly
Document: In this brief piece which is about the decision to shut down Grand Bazaar, a highly dense shopping area with 10.000 employees and 4000 individual shops after a week of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Turkey. We argue that this pre emptive action taken to shut down the shopping area, after symptoms screening of all individuals and PCR testing when necessary, have limited transmission of COVID-19 in Istanbul. We make the cases that it is important for decision makers to take action swiftly in order to contain COVID-19 in dense areas and decisions should not wait a flare up of cases.
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