A child wearing a face mask is seen at a water park in Ankara, Turkey, on Sept. 25, 2020. Turkey's COVID-19 cases increased by 1,665 to 311,455 on Friday, the Turkish Health Ministry announced. (Photo by Mustafa Kaya/Xinhua)
ANKARA, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Friday that the intensive care unit (ICU) bed occupancy rate of the country's hospitals has reached 68 percent during the coronavirus outbreak.
The bed occupancy rate is 61 percent in Turkey, while the intubation occupancy rate is 33 percent, the minister told reporters in the Black Sea province of Samsun.
Turkey's COVID-19 cases increased by 1,665 to 311,455 on the day, the Turkish Health Ministry announced.
Meanwhile, 73 people died in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 7,858 and 1,318 more patients recovered, raising the total recoveries to 273,282 in Turkey since the outbreak.
The rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients is 6.6 percent and the number of seriously ill patients is 1,601.
Turkish health professionals conducted 112,885 tests in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall number of tests to 9,834,572.
The country reported the first COVID-19 case on March 11.
Turkey and China have supported each other in the fight against COVID-19. Chinese doctors and medical experts held video conferences with Turkish counterparts to share China's experience in treating coronavirus patients, protecting medical workers, and controlling the spread of the virus.
