Turkey on Tuesday saw the highest number of former coronavirus patients discharged in a single day, the country’s health minister said.
A total of 5,018 patients were discharged from medical care after recovering from the virus in the last 24 hours alone, making a total of 38,809 patients discharged, Fahrettin Koca announced on Twitter.
MORE RECOVERIES THAN NEW CASES
“Over 5,000 patients have been recovered in past 24 hours. Total number of recoveries neared 40,000,” he said. Koca also confirmed 92 more fatalities from coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 2,992, citing Health Ministry data.
The number of patients in intensive care and intubated patients continued to drop. The number of new cases is as predicted, according to Koca.
He also underlined the success of the high number of tests given, saying: “We will soon top 1 million tests total. Let’s not endanger this success.”
A total of 29,230 tests for the virus were conducted over the past 24 hours, with the total reaching 948,115, according to the data.Tuesday’s numbers also show that for the fourth straight day, Turkey saw more coronavirus recoveries than new cases.