Turkey confirmed 117 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 2,376, SIA reports.
The total number of registered coronavirus reached 98,674, as 3,083 more people tested positive for the virus, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said at the news conference following Coronavirus Science Board meeting. Slamming the New York Times' claims on the number of death toll from Covid-19 in Istanbul, Koca said the story was built on "hostility to Turkey."
"We have given all the information transparently to the WHO [World Health Organization], as it wants, and we continue to do so," he added.
Turkish health minister said the death numbers between January 1 and April 20 since 2009 till 2020 have increased yearly by 2.89 percent. By this percentage Turkey expected the death number to be at 156,684 for the period but the number stood at 153,766, the minister said pointing that numbers are less than expected.
The minister also said that the people who died in Istanbul also were buried in the same city. Koca also said the numbers of deaths from the virus continue to rise across the world, but in Turkey the situation is stable. He also noted that the two-thirds of bed capacity is empty in Turkey's hospitals while only 60 percent of ICUs are occupied.
Speaking about possibilities for a new coronavirus wave in the country, the minister said Turkey does not expect it. "As long as measures are followed, we do not expect a new wave of Covid-19 in Turkey," he said, adding that with 2.3 percent, Turkey is among countries with the lowest death rates compared to number of positive cases.
Koca said the US and European countries are not treating people who show coronavirus symptoms in their health institutions. "Their approach is to make people stay 14 days at their homes unless they have respiratory distress," the minister added.
Vaccine studies continue in Turkey's six medical centres, while three of them have successfully isolated the coronavirus – Turkish health minister So far, a total of 16,477 patients have been discharged from hospitals after recovering from the virus, with 1,559 discharged on Wednesday alone, the minister added.
A total of 37,535 tests were conducted over the past 24 hours, with the total reaching 750,944.
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