ANKARA, Feb 20 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey yesterday reported 7,419 new COVID-19 cases, including 638 symptomatic patients, taking the total number of positive cases in the country to 2,624,019.
The death toll from the virus rose by 82 to 27,903, while the total recoveries climbed to 2,511,548, after 7,498 more cases recovered in the last 24 hours, according to the Turkish Health Ministry.
The rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients stands at 3.6 percent and the number of seriously ill patients was 1,185, said the ministry.
A total of 116,674 tests were conducted over the past day, raising the overall number of tests to 32,098,166.
Turkey started mass COVID-19 vaccination on Jan 14, after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine. More than 5,492,000 people have been vaccinated so far.
Turkey reported its first COVID-19 case on Mar 11, 2020.– NNN-ANADOLU
