Turkey on Wednesday confirmed 26,896 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 7,936,007, according to its health ministry, APA reports.
The death toll from the virus in Turkey rose by 210 to 69,769, while 30,542 more people recovered in the last 24 hours.
A total of 355,947 tests were conducted over the past day, it said.
Turkey started mass COVID-19 vaccination on Jan. 14 after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine.
More than 55.29 million people have received their first doses of vaccines, while over 48.41 million had their second doses. Turkey has so far administered over 115.86 million doses including third booster jabs.
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