Turkey’s coronavirus death toll reaches 1,296 with 61,049 cases

Turkey’s death toll from the coronavirus rose by 98 to total 1,296 and new confirmed cases rose by 4,093 to bring the country’s total to 61,049, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on April 13.

Monday April 13 2020 07:22 pm

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Turkey’s death toll from the coronavirus rose by 98 to total 1,296 and new confirmed cases rose by 4,093 to bring the country’s total to 61,049, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on April 13.

A total of 3,957 people have recovered so far, and the number of tests carried out over the past 24 hours was 34,456, bringing the total number of tests to 410,555, the minister said on his Twitter account.

"Our test number will soon reach 500,000. The rate of increase in the number of cases, compared to the increasing number of tests, is on the decrease. Early diagnosis and treatment has been increasing the number of recovered patients," he wrote.

Test sayımız yakında 500 bine ulaşacak. Artan test sayısına kıyasla beklenen vaka sayısındaki artış, hız olarak azalmaktadır. Erken tanı ve tedavi, iyileşen hasta sayımızı artırıyor.https://t.co/RVlhe7786O pic.twitter.com/tLkps8LFWK
— Dr. Fahrettin Koca (@drfahrettinkoca) April 13, 2020

Turkey is currently treating 1,786 patients in intensive care units, according to the figures.

The new data came just minutes after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Turkey will continue to implement weekend curfews "as needed" and the next curfew will be on April 18-19.

“We have decided to continue to implement weekend curfews in the upcoming period, as needed. I would like to announce to our citizens hereby that a curfew will be implemented starting on April 17 night and ending on April 19 night,” Erdoğan said on April 13, after chairing a cabinet meeting.