Turkey reports more than 2,500 Covid-19 'patients' with 85 deaths

Table: Health Ministry

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The Health Ministry registered 2,576 more novel coronavirus "patients" over the past 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry data released on Monday.

The country's patient tally now stands at 396,831, the ministry said.

The ministry excludes asymptomatic cases from its daily count and announces the number of "patients," or cases with symptoms as Minister Fahrettin Koca admitted on September 30.

Until July 29, 2020, the expression "number of daily cases" was used on the Health Ministry's daily Covid-19 table. It has then been understood that after this day, it has been changed into "number of daily patients."

A further 2,047 patients recovered from the disease over the past day, raising the total to 340,286, while the death toll rose by 85 to hit 10,972.

An additional 145,411 Covid-19 tests were conducted across the country, bringing the total to over 15.27 million.

The figures showed that the number of patients in critical condition currently stands at 2,867, with 4.2% this week suffering from pneumonia.

Across the world, Covid-19 has claimed more than 1.25 million lives in 190 countries and regions since last December.

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

Over 50.5 million cases have been reported worldwide, with more than 33 million recoveries, according to figures compiled by the US' Johns Hopkins University.

Daily figures announced by the ministry since the start of the outbreak:

(EKN/VK)