ANKARA, Jul 5 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey yesterday confirmed 4,418 new COVID-19 cases, including 404 symptomatic patients, raising the caseload in the country to 5,444,786, according to its health ministry.
The death toll from the virus in Turkey rose by 50 to 49,924, while 4,161 more people recovered in the last 24 hours.
A total of 216,252 tests were conducted over the past day, it said.
Turkey started mass COVID-19 vaccination on Jan 14, after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine. More than 35,883,000 people have been vaccinated so far.
Turkey reported its first COVID-19 case on Mar 11, 2020.– NNN-ANADOLU
