Turkey confirmed 5,386 new COVID-19 cases, 96 new fatalities in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Sunday, Trend reports citing Daily Sabah.
The ministry also confirmed 482 symptomatic patients, across the country in the last 24 hours. The number of new cases on Saturday was 6,126.
Turkey’s overall case tally is now over 5.28 million, while the nationwide death toll has reached 48,164 with 96 new fatalities, four down from a day earlier.
As many as 6,003 more patients won the battle against the virus over the past day as compared to 7,161 on Saturday, raising the total number of recoveries past 5.16 million.
Turkey has so far administered over 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since it launched a mass vaccination campaign in mid-January, according to official figures released on Sunday.