Daily coronavirus infections in Turkey soared past 40,000 cases – an all-time high, Health Ministry data showed Thursday, Daily Sabah reports.
The 40,806 new cases and 176 deaths mean Turkey is now in the throes of a third wave of the outbreak, which has officially killed 31,713 people in the nation of 83 million.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said this week that 75% of the new infections in Turkey were of the British variant, which is more infectious than previous strains.
