Turkey registers first coronavirus death as infection cases reach 98
By Trend
The first death from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been registered in Turkey, the number of confirmed cases in the country has more than doubled over the past 24 hours to 98, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said Tuesday, Trend reports citing Sputnik.
"Today we have the first death from coronavirus, an 89-year-old
patient who had contact with a patient infected in China has died.
The total number of infected people is now 98", Koca told reporters
Tuesday.
Koca said Monday the number of coronavirus-infected people in
Turkey had increased over the day to 47 from 18. Three of those
infected returned from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, the minister
said, adding that the risk of infection from abroad remains
high.
The COVID-19 was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei Province last December and has since spread to more than 150 countries. The World Health Organisation (WHO) later declared the COVID-19 a pandemic.