“Despite the coronavirus pandemic, our tourists were still able to massively visit Turkey.
In total, as announced by the Turkish authorities, more than 2 million Russians arrived here in 2020, ”the agency quoted Erkhov as saying.
He noted that in the context of a pandemic, local authorities have developed a whole range of measures to ensure the safety and health of foreign tourists.
“And, be that as it may, it turns out that for more than one and a half million Russian tourists in the provinces of Antalya and Mugla, only 438 cases of coronavirus infection were detected, deaths - 11,” the Russian ambassador added.
According to him, the measures taken by the Turkish authorities have proven their effectiveness.
Earlier, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said that the British strain of coronavirus infection COVID-19 was recorded in 17 Turkish cities.