Covid-19: Recoveries in Turkey Top 100,000 as Intensive Care Patients Drop Below 1,000

The country's death toll has reached 3,952 with a total of 143,114 cases, the Health Ministry has announced.

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Health workers applaud a patient discharged from treatment in Diyarbakır. (Photo: AA)

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The number of patients recovered from Covid-19 surpassed 100,000 with over 2,800 recoveries in a day, the Health Ministry has announced.

Meanwhile, the counry's death toll has climbed to 3,952 with 58 fatalities over the past 24 hours. Total cases have reached 143,114 as 1,639 new cases were found in a day. The number of patients in intensive care dropped below 1,000 for the first time.

	Today	Total
Cases	1,639	143,114
Deaths	58	3,952
Tests	33,332	1,474,003
Recoveries	2,826	101,715
Patients in intensive care		998
Patients on ventilators		535

Minister: Pandemic is under control

"We have been in a steady recovery since week five of outbreak. Under current conditions, the pandemic is under control," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told reporters after a video conference meeting with the ministry's Science Committee.

"Although our daily test capacity has reached 50,000, there is no need for such an amount due to the decline in new cases," he added.

Also, the contact tracing team of 6,239 health workers have reached out to 722,000 people contacting a patient since the first coronavirus case was recorded in Turkey, accoding to the minister.

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Daily cases and deaths

11 March: 1 case
13 March: 3 cases
14 March: 6 cases
15 March: 18 cases
16 March: 29 cases
17 March: 51 cases, 1 death
18 March: 93 cases, 1 death
19 March: 168 cases, 2 deaths (1.981 tests)
20 March: 311 cases, 5 deaths (3.656 tests)
21 March: 277 cases, 12 deaths (2.953 tests)
22 March: 289 cases, 9 deaths
23 March: 293 cases, 7 deaths (3.672 tests)
24 March: 343 cases, 7 deaths (3.952 tests)
25 March: 561 cases, 15 deaths (5.035 tests)
26 March: 1196 cases, 16 deaths (7.286 tests)
27 March: 2069 cases, 17 deaths (7.533 tests)
28 March: 1704 cases, 16 deaths (7.641 tests)
29 March: 1815 cases, 23 deaths (9.982 tests)
30 March: 1610 cases, 37 deaths (11.535 tests)
31 March: 2704 cases, 46 deaths (15.422 tests)

1 April: 2148 cases, 63 deaths (14.396 tests)
2 April: 2456 cases, 79 deaths (18.757 tests)
3 April: 2786 cases, 69 deaths (16.160 tests)
4 April: 3012 cases, 76 deaths (19.664 tests)
5 April: 3015 cases, 73 deaths (20.065 tests)
6 April: 3148 cases, 75 deaths (21.400 tests)
7 April: 3892 cases, 76 deaths (20.023 tests)
8 April: 4117 cases, 87 deaths (24.900 tests)
9 April: 4056 cases, 96 deaths (28.578 tests)
10 April: 4747 cases, 98 deaths (30.864 tests)
11 April: 5138 cases, 95 deaths (33.170 tests)
12 April: 4789 cases, 97 deaths (35.720 tests)
13 April: 4093 cases, 98 deaths (34.456 tests)
14 April: 4062 cases, 107 deaths (33.070 tests)
15 April: 4281 cases, 115 deaths (34.090 tests)
16 April: 4801 cases, 125 deaths (40.427 tests)
17 April: 4353 cases, 126 deaths (40.270 tests)
18 April: 3783 cases, 121 deaths (40.520 tests)
19 April: 3977 cases, 127 deaths (35.344 tests)
20 April: 4674 cases, 123 deaths (39.703 tests)
21 April: 4611 cases, 119 deaths (39.429 tests)
22 April: 3083 cases, 117 deaths (37.535 tests)
23 April: 3116 cases, 115 deaths (40.962 tests)
24 April: 3122 cases, 109 deaths (38.351 tests)
25 April: 2861 cases, 106 deaths (38.308 tests)
26 April: 2357 cases, 99 deaths (30.177 tests)
27 April: 2131 cases, 95 deaths (20.143 tests)
28 April: 2392 cases, 92 deaths (29.230 tests)
29 April: 2936 cases, 89 deaths (43.498 tests)
30 April: 2615 cases, 93 deaths (42.004 tests)

1 May: 2188 cases, 84 deaths (41.431 tests)
2 May: 1983 cases, deaths (36,318 tests)
3 May: 1670 cases, 64 deaths (24,01 tests)
4 May: 1614 cases, 64 deaths (35.771 tests)
5 May: 1832 cases, 59 deaths (33.283 tests)
6 May: 2253 cases, 64 deaths (30.303 tests)
7 May: 1977 cases, 57 deaths (30.395 tests)
8 May: 1848 cases, 48 deaths (33.687 tests)
9 May: 1546 cases, 50 deaths (35.605 tests)
10 May: 1542 cases, 47 deaths (36.187 tests)
11 May: 1114 cases, 55 deaths (32.722 tests)
12 May: 1704 cases, 53 deaths (37.351 tests)
13 May: 1639 cases, 58 deaths (33.332 tests)