Turkey‘s confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 7,325 as the daily patients increase by 649 in the past 24 hours, and 86 more people have died, taking the death toll to 27,738, the Health Ministry announced on Feb. 17.
Turkey’s total number of confirmed cases reached 2,609,359 according to the infographic.
Some 7,209 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.
The total number of recovered cases stood at 2,496,833.
The ministry said 117,121 tests were conducted over the past day, with the overall number of tests reaching 31,866,086.
It also added that while the rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients is 3.6 percent, the number of seriously ill patients is 1,193.
Hurriyet Daily News