Turkey reports more than 1,200 daily Covid-19 cases, tests exceed 70,000

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The Health Ministry has registered 1,226 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the tally to 246,861.

A total of 923 patients have recovered from Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, over the past day.

The total number of recoveries has reached 228,980 as 923 people were discharged from treatment.

"The data shows that there is an increase in the number of people who are in the risk group, due to their age or [pre-existing] condition, who have caught Covid-19," Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter.

"Don't take risks outside and bring it [coronavirus] home. One sick person is one infected family," he warned.

The death toll in the country stood at 5,934 as 22 more people lost their lives over the past 24 hours.

Table: Ministry of Health

Healthcare professionals conducted a record 70,192 tests to diagnose the disease over the past day, raising the tally to over 5.59 million.

Of those infected, 7.8 percent suffer from pneumonia.

Koca said the number of patients in critical condition increased to 656, up by nine.

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed over 760,000 lives in 188 countries and regions since it originated in China last December.

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

Nearly 21 million Covid-19 cases have been reported worldwide, with recoveries exceeding 13 million, according to figures compiled by the US-based Johns Hopkins University.

(RT/VK)