Turkey’s coronavirus cases reached 157,814 with an increase of 987 on Monday, according to a chart posted on Twitter by Health Minister Fahrettin Koca.
The coronavirus death toll increased by 29 to 4,369, the chart indicated.
Turkey received 21,492 test results on Monday.
Of all the confirmed cases, 120,015 are recoveries, while 759 are patients in intensive care.
“The number of recovered patients has exceeded 120,000. The need for intensive care is gradually declining. Our success depends on the efforts of Turkey’s 83 million people,” the minister tweeted, calling on everyone to comply with measures aimed at containing the pandemic.
The government has already eased some of the coronavirus measures imposed in mid-March.