including enhanced hygiene measures, use of masks and social distancing. 4 june in june, the emergency medical experts association launched a story contest titled "covid-19 stories". they said that in this contest they would evaluate the stories related to the effects of the pandemic on citizens' lives and later award the best three inputs. 13 june on 13 june 2020, the national defense university military student candidate determination exam (2020-msü) was held. 20 june on 20 june 2020, the exams organized by the transition system for high schools were held across turkey. a partial curfew was imposed during the exam. 27 june a partial curfew was imposed during the higher education institutions exams that were held on 27–28 june. august 2020 26 august with the circular issued by the president's office, rotational, flexible and remote work in public institutions and organizations was allowed. the rotational, flexible and remote working practice, which was initiated by the circular previously published on 22 march 2020, had expired on 1 june 2020. september 2020 30 september 2020 the minister of health, fahrettin koca, released a statement after meeting with the coronavirus scientific advisory board and said, "not every case is sick. because there are those who test positive but show no symptoms, and they are the vast majority." explaining the distinction between definitions of patient and case, koca said, "the number of new patients that are announced and focused on every day should be an issue of attention." october 2020 2 october 2020 the ministry of health released its september weekly reports with delay, approximately a month after the weekly report covering 24–30 august. the ministry, which explained the number of cases in previous reports, started to give data on the number of patients instead of cases in new reports. 9 october 2020 fahrettin koca announced the latest developments in making an indigenous vaccine and added that trials on humans would probably begin in 2 weeks. november 2020 17 november recep tayyip erdoğan announced new measures to control the spread of the virus. he stated that distant learning would continue until the end of the year, a curfew would be imposed on weekends except between 10:00 am–08:00 pm, restaurants would only provide take-away service, and shopping malls and markets would close at 08:00 pm. 20 november on 20 november, ministry of health reinstated the curfew on people age 65 and older and people twenty and younger. on the same day, minister of internal affairs ordered businesses and places of worship to halt indoor activities. grocery stores and pharmacies have remained open, with legally imposed limits to capacity. 30 november on 30 november, official figures showed that gross domestic product expanded 15.6 per cent compared with the previous quarter, and 6.7 per cent compared with a year earlier. december 2020 6 december on 6 december, ministry of health fahrettin koca announced that 50 million doses of coronavac should arrive by the end of february 2021, and 10 million doses of the pfizer–biontech covid-19 vaccine should start arriving still during december. 7 december on 7 december, pfizer and biontech finalized their submission to the turkish medicines and medical devices agency (tma), which has been reviewing data from the clinical trial on a rolling basis since october. the tma said it would recommend granting an emergency use authorization if it concluded "that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh its risks in protecting against covid-19", based on the 2004 law that created the tma's process. 10 december on 10 december, the seven-day averages for three of the primary metrics (tests, cases, hospitalizations) were at record highs. earlier in the spring of 2020, during the first covid-19 surge in the turkey, the rising death toll reached a peak on 22 april, with a seven-day average of 122 daily deaths. in december, the seven-day average of deaths in turkey from covid-19 broke that record, at 255 on 29 december. 13 december on 13 december, tma pushed back formal assessments of two covid-19 vaccines, delaying distribution of the pfizer–biontech covid-19 vaccine and coronavac in turkey to the end of december. the tma said it planned to give an opinion on the pfizer–biontech covid-19 vaccine at a meeting on 29 december. tma has also delayed assessing the rival moderna vaccine until 12 january. january 2021 1 january turkey detected 15 cases of the uk coronavirus variant on 1 january 2021. 14 january on 14 january 2021, turkish president recep tayyip erdoğan received the covid-19 vaccine.