Turkey on Friday reported more than 42,000 new coronavirus cases, the Health Ministry said, the highest single-day spike since the beginning of the pandemic.

Axar.az reports that a total of 42,308 cases, including 1,471 symptomatic patients, were registered across the country over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 3.4 million.

The nationwide death toll has reached 31,892 with 179 more fatalities over the past day.

As many as 24,419 more patients won the battle against the disease, raising the number of recoveries to over 3 million.

More than 39 million coronavirus tests have been conducted in Turkey to date, with 248,968 done since Thursday.

The latest figures show that the number of COVID-19 patients in critical condition stands at 2,182.