Turkey could order the public to stay at home if coronavirus infections continue to spread, the government said on Thursday as it clamped down further on medical equipment leaving the country.

According to the report, The government announced such a measure for people older than 65 over the weekend, but not for the general public as some other countries have done.

Istanbul’s mayor urged national authorities to do so on Thursday, saying nearly a million people were still using public transportation in the country’s largest city.

The sources said that the highly contagious respiratory disease has killed 59 in Turkey after cases surged in two weeks to 2,433.

“Complete social isolation is always on our agenda,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on AHaber TV. Asked whether a complete curfew would be announced, he said, “If we can’t prevent spread of the epidemic with the steps we’ve already taken, we can of course take the most stringent measure.”

Mayor of Istanbul shared a video of the city which shows the silence of Istanbul during this pandemic.

#Istanbul, today. pic.twitter.com/vJHCcpOcgn

— Ekrem İmamoğlu (International) (@imamoglu_int) March 26, 2020