Turkey reports 24,733 new COVID-19 cases

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ANKARA, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Turkey on Monday confirmed 24,733 new COVID-19 cases, including 2,501 symptomatic patients, raising the total number in the country to 4,900,121, according to its health ministry.

The death toll from the COVID-19 in Turkey rose by 347 to 41,191, while the total recoveries climbed to 4,515,819 after 35,438 more recovered in the last 24 hours.

The rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients stands at 3.2 percent and the number of seriously ill patients is 3,438 in the country, said the ministry.

A total of 243,648 tests were conducted over the past day, with the overall number of tests in Turkey reaching 47,987,986.

Turkey started mass COVID-19 vaccination on Jan. 14 after the authorities approved the emergency use of the CoronaVac vaccine. More than 14,040,000 people have been vaccinated so far.

Turkey reported its first COVID-19 case on March 11, 2020. Enditem

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