Turkey‘s confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 5,862 as the daily patients increase by 749 in the past 24 hours, and 164 more people have died, taking the death toll to 24,161, the Health Ministry announced on Jan. 18.
Turkey’s total number of confirmed cases reached 2,392,963 according to the infographic.
Some 7,905 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.
The total number of recovered cases stood at 2,270,769.
The ministry said 151,342 tests were conducted over the past day, with the overall number of tests reaching 27,523,423.
The ministry also added that while the rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients is 5.1 percent, the number of seriously ill patients is 2,183.
Hurriyet Daily News