ANKARA, Feb 19 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey yesterday reported 7,241 new COVID-19 cases, including 640 symptomatic patients, taking the total number of positive cases in the country to 2,616,600.
The death toll from the virus rose by 83 to 27,821, while total recoveries climbed to 2,504,050, after 7,217 more cases recovered in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry.
The rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients stands at 3.6 percent and the number of seriously ill patients was 1,187, said the ministry.
A total of 115,406 tests were conducted over the past day, raising the overall number of tests to 31,981,492.
Turkey started mass COVID-19 vaccination on Jan 14, after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine. More than 5.2 million people have been vaccinated so far.
Turkey reported its first COVID-19 case on Mar 11, 2020.– NNN-ANADOLU
