KUWAIT, June 5 (KUNA) -- Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced on Friday that 18 people died of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours while 930 persons tested positive for the disease.
Koca was quoted by the Anadolu news agency, monitored in Kuwait, as saying total deaths reached 4,648 while registered cases increased to 168,340.
He added 1,622 people recovered today to increase recoveries to 133,400.
Koca said there were 592 patients in the intensive care units, of them 269 attached to ventilators.
Laboratories, he added, conducted 57,829 tests today, and over 2.267 million since outbreak of the pandemic in Turkey. (end) rs.ibi