Turkey's confirmed
Coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Saturday, overtaking neighbouring
Iran for the first time to register the highest total in the
Middle East.
An increase of 3,783 cases in the last 24 hours also pushed Turkey's confirmed tally within a few hundred of
China, where the novel coronavirus first emerged.
Koca said 121 more people have died, taking the death toll to 1,890.