ANKARA, Apr 12 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey reported 50,678 new COVID-19 cases, including 2,548 symptomatic patients, raising the total number in the country to 3,849,011, according to its health ministry.
The death toll from the virus rose by 237 to 33,939, while the total recoveries climbed to 3,331,411, after 30,194 more cases recovered in the last 24 hours.
The rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients stands at 3.1 percent and the number of seriously ill patients is 2,824 in the country, said the ministry.
A total of 294,274 tests were conducted over the past day, taking the overall number in Turkey to 41,591,854.
Turkey started mass vaccination against COVID-19 on Jan 14, after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine. More than 10,923,000 people have been vaccinated so far.
Turkey reported its first COVID-19 case on Mar 11, 2020.
