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Coronavirus cases in Turkey climb to 7,402, with 108 deaths

Published : 28 Mar 2020, 20:44

  DF-Xinhua Report
A man walks past the closed Istanbul Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey, March 24, 2020. Photo Xinhua.

In the past 24 hours in Turkey, 16 more people lost their lives due to COVID-19, raising the death toll to 108, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Saturday night.

The total number of novel coronavirus cases rose to 7,402 in Turkey, the minister tweeted.

A total of 7,641 tests were performed on Saturday and 1,704 were diagnosed, he added.

Turkey reported the first COVID-19 case in the country on March 11.