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Turkey’s Total Coronavirus Cases Top 100,000; Death Toll 2,491

A doctor prepares to perform a tracheotomy operation on a patient infected with Covid-19 in Istanbul, Turkey on April 18. — A doctor prepares to perform a tracheotomy operation on a patient infected with Covid-19 in Istanbul, Turkey on April 18.
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By Tugce Ozsoy and Selcan Hacaoglu

April 23, 2020 at 5:07 PM UTC

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Turkey has become the seventh country globally to report more than 100,000 coronavirus cases.

The number of cases rose to 101,790 on Thursday, while the death toll climbed to 2,491, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in a Twitter post.