ANKARA, Jun 12 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey yesterday confirmed 6,261 new COVID-19 cases, including 561 symptomatic patients, raising the total infections in the country to 5,319,359, according to its health ministry.
The death toll from the virus rose by 69 to 48,593, while the total recoveries climbed to 5,192,945, after 6,217 more people recovered in the last 24 hours.
The rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients stands at 2.7 percent, and the number of seriously ill patients in the country is 997, said the ministry.
A total of 224,128 tests were conducted over the past day, with the overall number of tests in Turkey reaching 56,570,784.
Turkey started mass COVID-19 vaccination on Jan 14, after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine.
More than 19,227,000 people have been vaccinated, so far.
Turkey reported its first COVID-19 case on Mar 11, 2020.– NNN-ANADOLU
