Turkey reports 55,500 new COVID-19 cases, 253 fatalities over 24 hours

Turkey's daily count of coronavirus cases reached over 55,500 Friday, the Health Ministry said, Daily Sabah reports.

A total of 55,791 cases, including 2,408 symptomatic patients, were confirmed across the country, the data showed.

Turkey's overall case tally is over 3.74 million, while the nationwide death toll has reached 33,454, with 253 fatalities over the past day.

As many as 35,786 more patients in the country won the battle against the virus, bringing the total number of recoveries to over 3.26 million.

More than 40.9 million coronavirus tests have been done in Turkey to date, with 305,103 tests since Thursday.

The latest figures also show that the number of COVID-19 patients in critical condition has risen to 2,408.

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said the more contagious variant first detected in Britain accounts for 75% of all recent cases.