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Turkey reports 11,770 new Covid-19 cases; Iran’s total infections exceed 1.68 mn

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Cairo, March 7 : Turkey reported 11,770 new Covid-19 cases, while Iran’s total infections exceeded 1.68 million after 8,212 daily cases were registered.
Among the new cases confirmed in Turkey, 702 were symptomatic patients, as the total number of positive cases in the country reached 2,769,230, according to Turkish health ministry, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
The death toll from the virus in Turkey rose by 64 to 28,965, while the total recoveries climbed to 2,616,139 after 7,291 more cases recovered in the last 24 hours.
The country started mass vaccination against Covid-19 on January 14 after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine. More than 7,519,000 people have been vaccinated so far.
Iran’s health ministry reported 8,212 daily Covid-19 cases on Saturday, raising the total nationwide infections to 1,681,682.
The pandemic has so far claimed 60,594 lives in Iran, up by 82 in the past 24 hours, said Sima Sadat Lari, the spokeswoman for Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education, during her daily briefing.

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