ANKARA, Dec 17 (NNN-ANADOLU) – The Turkish health ministry started to open “COVID-19 Monitoring Centres” for the control and follow-up of the health status of patients, who have had the COVID-19 infection.
The patients will be monitored for at least two years at these centres, and possible health problems related to the infection will be intervened early, the health ministry said yesterday, in a written statement.
Two of those facilities were already launched in the capital, Ankara, and the north-western province of Eskisehir, and more will be opened in 24 provinces.
Turkey yesterday reported 29,718 COVID-19 cases, including 4,893 symptomatic patients, as the total number of positive cases in the country reached 1,928,165, its health ministry announced.
The death toll from the virus rose by 240 to 17,121, while total recoveries climbed to 1,691,113 after 29,922 more cases recovered in the last 24 hours.
The rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients stands at 2.9 percent and the number of seriously ill patients is 5,960, said the ministry.
A total of 205,397 tests were conducted over the past day, with the overall number of tests reaching 21,695,592.– NNN-ANADOLU
