NEWS CENTER - After an increase in daily cases for five days in a row, the Health Ministry has reported 1,459 new infections for the past 24 hours, slightly lower than yesterday's update.
The Health Ministry has confirmed 1,467 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total tally to 181,298.
The country's death toll from the virus rose to 4,842, as it reported 17 more fatalities in the past 24 hours, Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter. The total number of recoveries from the disease reached 153,379, while 732 patients remain in intensive care
Health care professionals conducted 46,800 tests to detect the disease in the past day, raising the total count to over 2.72 million.
Since first appearing in China last December, the novel coronavirus has spread to at least 188 countries and regions.
The US, Brazil and Russia are currently the hardest hit in the world.
The pandemic has killed over 438,000 people worldwide, with more than 8.07 million confirmed cases and over 3.9 million recoveries, according to figures compiled by the US-based Johns Hopkins University.