Turkey’s coronavirus death toll rises by 55 to 4,007, with new 1,635 cases

Turkey’s death toll from the coronavirus rose by 55 to total 4,007 and new confirmed cases rose by 1,635 to bring the country’s total to 144,749, Health Ministry data showed on May 14.

Thursday May 14 2020 07:33 pm

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Turkey’s death toll from the coronavirus rose by 55 to total 4,007 and new confirmed cases rose by 1,635 to bring the country’s total to 144,749, Health Ministry data showed on May 14.

"We have exceeded 1.5 million in the number of total tests. The number of our intensive care and intubated patients is continuing to decrease. The rate of recovery in our total cases is 71.8 percent," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca wrote on his Twitter account.

Toplam test sayısında 1,5 milyonu geçtik. Yoğun bakım ve entübe hasta sayımız azalmaya devam ediyor. Toplam vaka sayımızda iyileşme oranı %71,8. Yeni hayat tarzımız Kontrollü Sosyal Hayat, yani hep birlikte tedbir. Koşulu: Maske + 1, 5 metre Sosyal Mesafe. https://t.co/RVlhe7786O pic.twitter.com/9SgI6QMyoR
— Dr. Fahrettin Koca (@drfahrettinkoca) May 14, 2020

Koca has recently announced that the outbreak is currently “under control” in Turkey, but also issued a warning that a second wave of infections might break out if measures are not abided by.

The government has introduced a normalization process to ease the coronavirus restrictions, and shopping malls and barbershops across the country became operational on May 11.