Turkey‘s confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 11,837 as the daily patients increase by 668 in the past 24 hours, and 68 more people have died, taking the death toll to 28,706, the Health Ministry announced on March 2.
Turkey’s total number of confirmed cases reached 2,723,316 according to the infographic.
Some 7,892 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.
The total number of recovered cases stood at 2,586,073.
The ministry said 135,291 tests were conducted over the past day, with the overall number of tests reaching 33,440,843.
It also added that while the rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients is 3.6 percent, the number of seriously ill patients is 1,227.
Hurriyet Daily News