Turkey reported 1,716 more cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,225 recoveries on Monday.
“There is no slowing down in the transmission rate of the disease,” Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter.
“TOGETHER WE CAN WIN THIS FIGHT”
The country’s overall infection count now stands at 292,878, including 260,058 recoveries, according to the Health Ministry’s data. The death toll from pandemic in Turkey rose to 7,119, with 63 new fatalities reported since Sunday.
A total of 112,563 more coronavirus tests were conducted over the past 24 hours, pushing the total up to over 8.63 million.
“We cannot fight one by one, but together we can win,” Koca said, and urged people to follow the protective measures to fight the virus in unity.
Of those infected, 7.1% suffer from pneumonia, showed the ministry figures.