Turkey‘s confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 4,215 in the past 24 hours, and 116 more people have died, taking the death toll to 11,820, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Nov. 18.
Turkey’s total confirmed cases stood at 425,628, according to the infographic Koca shared on Twitter.
Some 2,592 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, the minister said.
The total number of recovered cases stood at 361,655.
Koca also said 158,811 tests were conducted over the past day, with the overall number of tests reaching 16,623,489.
The minister also added that while the rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients is 3.8 percent, the number of seriously ill patients is 3,742.
Hurriyet Daily News