Turkey's daily Covid-19 'patient' count exceeds 2,000 for the first time in months

Table: Health Ministry

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The Health Ministry has registered 2,026 new coronavirus patients in the last 24 hours, according to Health Ministry data released on Monday.

The country's overall tally now stands at 349,519, the ministry reported. The daily patient number was first announced as 1,958 and later revised.

The ministry reports only cases with symptoms, which it calls "patients," while excluding asymptomatic cases from its daily count, as Minister Fahrettin Koca admitted on September 30. 

The number of "cases" or "patients" exceeded 2,000 for the first time since May 6.

Some 1,424 more patients recovered over the past day, raising the count to 305,427, while the death toll rose by 75 to reach 9,371.

Around 116,249 more Covid-19 tests were carried out across the country, bringing the total to over 12.52 million.

The figures showed that the number of patients in critical condition currently stands at 1,447, with 5.6 percent this week suffering from pneumonia.

In a tweet, Fahrettin Koca said: "It is difficult to achieve success without reducing the number of serious patients," urging the public to follow measures to stem the virus' spread.

Across the world, Covid-19 has claimed more than 1.11 million lives in 189 countries and regions since last December.

The US, India, and Brazil are currently the worst-hit countries.

Over 40.15 million cases have been reported worldwide, with recoveries exceeding 27.54 million, according to figures compiled by the US' Johns Hopkins University.

Daily figures announced by the Health Ministry since the start of the outbreak:

(EKN/VK)