Turkey's daily COVID-19 tally over 20,400

Turkey on Sunday reported more than 20,400 new COVID-19 cases, according to Health Ministry data.

A total of 20,428 cases, including 965 symptomatic patients, were confirmed across the country, the data showed.

The daily figure was slightly less than the 21,061 infections reported on Saturday, which included 958 symptomatic patients.

Turkey’s overall case tally is now over 3 million, while the nationwide death toll has reached 30,061, with 102 more fatalities registered over the past day – seven more than Saturday’s figure.

As many as 17,615 more patients in the country won the battle against the virus, down from 18,815 on Saturday, taking the total number of recoveries past 2.82 million.

More than 36.35 million coronavirus tests have been done in Turkey to date, with 189,906 done since Saturday.

Latest figures show that the number of COVID-19 patients in critical condition rose to 1,568 from 1,538 on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reported.