{"id":65099,"date":"2020-03-18T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T08:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=65099"},"modified":"2020-03-18T08:56:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T08:56:44","slug":"turkey-confirms-first-death-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-confirms-first-death-from-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey confirms first death from coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkey confirmed its first death from the coronavirus late Tuesday, according to its health minister.<\/h2>\n<p>A patient, 89, died while 51 additional cases were diagnosed, Fahrettin Koca said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>With the new figures, the number of confirmed cases rose to 98.<\/p>\n<p>Out of over 197,000 confirmed cases, the death toll now exceeds 7,900, while more than 81,000 patients have recovered, according to Worldometer, a website that compiles new case numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The number of active cases is more than 107,000 &#8212; 93% mild and 7% in critical condition, according to the website.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization has declared Europe the new epicenter of the virus, which first emerged in Wuhan, China last December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey confirmed its first death from the coronavirus late Tuesday, according to its health minister. A patient, 89, died while 51 additional cases were diagnosed, Fahrettin Koca said at a news conference. With the new figures, the number of confirmed cases rose to 98. Out of over 197,000 confirmed cases, the death toll now exceeds &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,107,118,172,174,194,173,1165],"tags":[78522,78526,77182],"class_list":["post-65099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-health","category-hot","category-turkey-choice","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-life","tag-coronavirus","tag-fahrettin-koca","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}