Thirteen days after the strong earthquake in Turkey, the authorities announced that the search and rescue work will end on the 19th.

(Reuters)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the border area between Turkey and Syria on the 6th and severely damaged the local area. According to foreign media reports, the number of victims in the two countries has exceeded 46,000. The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Agency announced that the search and rescue work was 19 local time The evening will end.

According to comprehensive foreign media reports, the death toll in Turkey is 40,642, and the death toll in Syria is more than 5,800. A total of 345,000 apartments in Turkey have been destroyed. Because many people are still missing, the death toll is expected to soar.

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Yunus Sezer, head of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Agency, said that the search and rescue work will basically end on Sunday night, and the search and rescue work will be concentrated in the province of Hatay (Hatay) near the epicenter. 11,488 international search and rescue teams from 80 countries are stationed in the rescue.

"Al Jazeera" reported that Turkish authorities stated that more than 1 million victims of the disaster were placed in temporary accommodation centers, and thousands more chose to set up tents outside their homes, and some victims chose to sleep in cars.

Many Turkish medical staff rushed to Hatay Province to assist the victims. A nurse revealed that they treated dozens of diarrhea patients, including adults and children, within three days in the camp.

Responding to external concerns about the outbreak of infectious diseases due to health problems in the affected areas, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said that although intestinal and upper respiratory infections have increased, they have not yet caused public health problems.

But he promised at a news conference in hard-hit Hatay that the first priority was to prevent infectious diseases.

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