ANKARA, Mar 5 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey yesterday reported 11,322 new COVID-19 cases, including 685 symptomatic patients, as the total number of positive cases in the country reached 2,746,158.
Death toll from the virus rose by 68 to 28,839, while total recoveries climbed to 2,601,137, after 7,873 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 is 1,220, said the ministry.
A total of 137,885 tests have been conducted over the past day, with the overall number of tests done reaching 33,716,746.
The country started mass vaccination on Jan 14, after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine. More than 7,402,000 doses of the vaccine have been injected so far.
Turkey reported its first COVID-19 case on Mar 11, 2020.– NNN-ANADOLU
