MHP deputy chair Feti Yıldız admitted to hospital for coronavirus

MHP deputy chair Feti Yıldız has become the first Turkish lawmaker known to have been infected with the novel coronavirus. Yıldız was admitted to a hospital on April 6.

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Feti Yıldız, the deputy chairman of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has become the first Turkish lawmaker known to have been infected with the novel coronavirus.

Yıldız announced on Twitter on April 6 that he was being admitted to a hospital after testing testing positive for the virus.

Yıldız reportedly also suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

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