Turkey’s Ministry of Health announces Corona data for 17 October 2020
Ministry of Health has announced Turkey’s corona virus patient table for October 17. Accordingly, 71 people died on this day, while 723 new patients were identified. The Health Minister said, “The way to reduce the number of seriously ill people is to prevent the transmission of the disease. Therefore, our most important weapon now is to comply with the measures altogether” he said.
Based on data announced the total number of tests 12 million 306 thousand 909 reached with the 112,131 test conducted today.
In the last 24 hours, 1,723 new patients were identified, the total number of patients increased to 345,678. The number of deaths also increased to 9,224. With 1, 401 patients recovering, the total number of people recovering reached 302,499.
On the other hand, the number of severe patients was 1,428 thousand, and the rate of pneumonia in patients was 5.9 percent. The average contact detection time was 7.6 hours and the filiation rate was 99.4 percent.
