Turkey's economy is in trouble as experts worry it could become a new coronavirus hotspot

Turkey has reported more than 4,000 new coronavirus cases per day for the past week, a sudden surge that's alarmed health experts.

Turkey began registering more than 3,000 new coronavirus cases per day after April 4 and has reported more than 4,000 per day since April 8, a sudden surge that's alarmed health experts.

Municipal officials carry out disinfection works as a precaution against the coronavirus at historical mosques and churches in Mardin, Turkey on March 13, 2020.Turkey is on shaky ground and its currency depreciating as controversial monetary moves and fast-rising coronavirus cases threaten to plunge an already fragile economy into much more danger.

"Unemployment in January was already 14% and it will probably increase greatly due to the foreclosures because of the coronavirus," he said. "It is evident that hospitals in the city have not prepared adequately in the two and a half months since this deadly virus first came into the spotlight," the Istanbul Chamber of Physicians said in a statement in early April. Cases are now at more than 61,000, with at least 1,296 deaths.

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