The coronovirus outbreak is spreading also due to limited number of tests available in Van and its districts. The number of cases has approached 200 also because the people coming to Van were not quarantined and not adequately tested.

Nearly 10 people have lost their lives in Van so far. The fact that the Turkish state does not take adequate measures in the Kurdistan provinces is accompanied by negligence. A case in point is that of the village of Örmetaş in Başkale district.

The number of cases began to increase rapidly in the village of Örmetaş. The village was quarantined on 7 April after detecting coronavirus in a citizen who had come from Istanbul on the same day. However, despite the quarantine imposed on the village, no test was performed to citizens.

The number of cases increased to 44 within one month. It was in fact established that not only one person but several had previously come to the village from Istanbul.

A that point the State began looking for the 'guilty'. The first to fall was the village headman (mukhtar), dismissed by the governor. The mukhtar hit back, saying that in fact he had reported that people had come from Istanbul to the village, to Van Governatorate.

Previously, the villages of Ilıcak, Belliyurt, Esenyamaç, Khan in Başkale as well as the hamlets of Çemik and Tellikaya and the village of Alacayer in Çatak were quarantined.