Turkey on Saturday reported 5,856 new coronavirus infections, including 723 symptomatic patients.

Axar.az reports that Turkey's current case tally passed 2.42 million, while the nationwide death toll reached 24,933, with 144 more fatalities over the past day.

As many as 5,811 more patients in the country won the battle against the virus, bringing the total number of recoveries to over 2.3 million.

More than 28.34 million coronavirus tests have been conducted in Turkey to date, with 152,758 done since Friday.

The latest figures show that the number of COVID-19 patients in critical condition dropped to 1,962.