Turkey‘s confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 20,049 as the daily patients increase by 902 in the past 24 hours, and 81 more people have died, taking the death toll to 29,777, the Health Ministry announced on March 18.
Turkey’s total number of confirmed cases reached 2,950,603 according to the infographic.
Some 18,615 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.
The total number of recovered cases stood at 2,770,638.
The ministry said 184,452 tests were conducted over the past day, with the overall number of tests reaching 35,787,480.
It also added that while the rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients is 3.2 percent, the number of seriously ill patients is 1,503.
Hurriyet Daily News