NEWS CENTER - The number of people who died due to the coronavirus epidemic has exceeded 146 thousand and the number of cases has exceeded 2 million 184 thousand. Turkey is catching up with China and Iran as its number of cases increase on a daily basis.
The "worldometers" website, where current data on coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic is compiled, updated the number of people who died from the epidemic to 146 thousand 897 and the number of cases to 2 million 184 thousand 506. On the site, the number of healed patients was also updates as 553 thousand 39.
The top 10 countries with the highest number of cases were listed as follows: USA 678 thousand 210, Spain 184 thousand 948, Italy 168 thousand 941, France 165 thousand 27, Germany 137 thousand 698, England 103 thousand 93, China 82 thousand 692, Iran 77 thousand 995 , Turkey 74 thousand 193 and Belgium 34 thousand 809.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca have announced yesterday that 125 people have lost their lives due to coronavirus in the last 24 hours while the number of new cases were announced as 4 thousand 801.
Turkey ranks 9th in the countries with the highest number of cases. With the latest data, Turkey seems to be catching up with Iran and China where the epidemic first emerged.