Turkey on Saturday confirmed 8,697 new COVID-19 cases, including 835 symptomatic patients, raising the total number in the country to 5,178,648, according to its health ministry, Trend reports citing Xinhua.
The death toll from the virus in Turkey rose by 231 to 46,071, while the total recoveries climbed to 5,013,111 after 14,472 more people recovered in the last 24 hours.
The rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients stands at 3.2 percent and the number of seriously ill patients is 1,876 in the country, said the ministry.
A total of 216,658 tests were conducted over the past day, taking the overall number of tests in Turkey to 52,167,387.