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Coronavirus: Turkey confirms first death

Number of cases in country rises to 98



Women wear protective face masks near Sultanahmet Mosque also known as the Blue Mosque as the nation tries to contain the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Istanbul on March 17, 2020.
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Istanbul: Turkey confirmed its first novel coronavirus-related death on Tuesday as the number of cases in the country has risen to 98.

“Today I lost my first patient in our fight against coronavirus,” Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told a televised press conference, adding that the patient was an 89-year-old man.

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