Turkey's Covid-19 Death Toll Rises to 4,096

The Health Ministry has reported 1,610 new cases, bringing the tally to 148,067.

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Turkey's death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic rose to 4,096 as the country reported 41 new fatalities over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry has announced. The country also registered 1,610 new cases, bringing the tally to 148,067.

The number of patients in intensive care and the proportion of fatalities in intensive care patients is decreasing, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in a tweet, saying that there was a predictable slowdown in the recovery rate.

Here are today's figures:

	Today	Total
Cases	1,610	148,067
Deaths	41	4,096
Tests	42,236	1,589,625
Recoveries	2,004	108,137
Patients in intensive care		906
Patients on ventilators		474

Since first appearing China last December, the novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 disease has spread to at least 188 countries and regions, with the US and Europe the hardest-hit areas.

The pandemic has killed over 309,000 worldwide, with more than 4.58 million confirmed cases, while recoveries have surpassed 1.65 million, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University in the US.

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)
14 May: 1635 cases, 55 deaths (34.821 tests)
15 May: 1708 cases, 48 deaths (38.565 tests)
16 May: 1610 cases, 41 deaths (42.236 tests)