ANKARA, Apr 20 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey yesterday reported 55,149 new COVID-19 cases, including 2,862 symptomatic patients, raising the total number in the country to 4,323,596, according to its health ministry.
The death toll rose by 341 to 36,267, while the total recoveries climbed to 3,736,537, after 48,947 more 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 3,319 in the country, said the ministry.
A total of 318,869 tests were conducted over the past day, taking the overall number to 44,087,628.
Turkey started mass vaccination on Jan 14, after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine. More than 12,328,000 people have been vaccinated so far.– NNN-ANADOLU
