Minister: 85 Percent of All Patients Recovered in Turkey While Death Toll Hits 4,763

International flights restarted at İstanbul Airport today. (Photo: AA)

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Turkey's death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has climbed to 4,763 with a total of 174,023 cases, the Health Ministry has announced.

Eighty-five percent of all patients have recovered since the beginning of the outbreak, Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter. The total number of recoveries has reached 147,860 with 1,021 patients being discharged from treatment in a day.

"The virus gets its power from false optimism. Do not abandon the measures with the misconception that 'the effect of the virus is reduced'," Koca warned.

According to the ministry figures, total tests have exceeded 2.5 million as healthcare workers carried out nearly 50,000 tests over the past 24 hours.

Here are today's numbers:

Fourteen-day quarantine lifted for citizens visiting Turkey

A 14-day home quarantine was lifted today for citizens of Turkey homeland, Abdullah Eren, head of the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB).

"During the summer period, we will assist our citizens abroad who are on a journey to homeland," he said in a statement.

With the steps taken for normalization from the coronavirus pandemic, Turkey started to ease strict measures applied to citizens traveling from abroad and executed in border crossings, according to the YTB statement.

As part of loosening of measures, transit passages for citizens traveling from European countries via land were opened, the statement said.

About 6 million citizens of Turkey live in European countries. In recent years, some 700,000 of them drove to Turkey from Europe, according to the agency.

Daily fatalities, cases and tests reported by the Health Ministry:

(EKN/VK)