国际英语新闻:Turkey reports 1,670 new COVID-19 cases, totaling 126,045

ANKARA, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's total confirmed cases of COVID-19 reached 126,045, with 1,670 new patients reported in the last 24 hours, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Sunday.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus in Turkey reached 3,397 after 61 more lost their lives over the past 24 hours, Koca tweeted.

Turkey conducted a total of 24,001 tests in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of tests carried out to 1,135,367, the minister noted.

A total of 63,151 patients have recovered, and 1,424 patients are still being treated at intensive care units, and 766 are intubated, the minister said.

"For the first time today, the number of healed patients has exceeded our current number of coronavirus patients since March 11," Koca stated.

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

The number of new cases and the daily death figures have been in decline in Turkey nearly in the past two weeks.