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Turkey Logs Record 82,180 New COVID Cases

A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Basaksehir Cam and Sakura City Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey November 25, 2021. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Basaksehir Cam and Sakura City Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey November 25, 2021. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Turkey Logs Record 82,180 New COVID Cases

A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Basaksehir Cam and Sakura City Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey November 25, 2021. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Basaksehir Cam and Sakura City Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey November 25, 2021. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Turkey has recorded 82,180 new COVID-19 cases in the space of 24 hours, its highest daily figure of the pandemic, health ministry data showed on Thursday, Reuters reported.

There were 174 deaths related to coronavirus in the same period, the data showed.

In late December, daily cases stood at about 20,000, before a surge in infections due to Omicron.

"Our health workers are at their posts. If it is time for your booster dose, do not yield to tolerable difficulties due to the weather conditions," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter.

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Task Force Will Help Americans Who Want to Leave the Middle East 

Rescue team work at the site where a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP)
Rescue team work at the site where a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP)
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Task Force Will Help Americans Who Want to Leave the Middle East 

Rescue team work at the site where a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP)
Rescue team work at the site where a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP)

The State Department has created a special task force to assist Americans seeking to leave Israel and other Middle Eastern countries amid the conflict with Iran, although no government evacuations are currently planned.

The task force run by the Bureau of Consular Affairs is operating 24 hours to provide information to US citizens and lawful permanent residents wanting to return to the United States.

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters Tuesday that “we continue to monitor the complex and rapidly evolving situation on the ground as we continue to assess and address the needs of US citizens.”

She would not say how many people had sought advice from the task force.

There are some 700,000 Americans, many of them dual US-Israeli citizens, now in Israel and thousands more in other Middle Eastern countries, including Iran.