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Daily briefing on novel coronavirus pandemic worldwide, Turkey, other developments 07.06.2021
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Anadolu Agency is here with a rundown of the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic and other news in Turkey and around the world.
- Coronavirus and other developments in Turkey
Turkey has so far administered over 30.69 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since it launched a mass vaccination campaign in mid-January, according to official figures released Sunday.
Around 17.60 million people have received their first doses, while over 13.1 million have been fully vaccinated, the Health Ministry s count showed.
The ministry also confirmed 5,386 new coronavirus cases, including 482 symptomatic patients, across the country in the last 24 hours. The number of new cases Saturday was 6,126.
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A senior official from Turkey s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was killed in a Turkish intelligence operation in Iraq, Turkey s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday.
Mr Erdogan accuses the PKK of using the mountainous area in Iraq s north as a springboard for its insurgency against the Turkish state.
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said Selman Bozkir, also known as Doctor Huseyin, was the PKK chief in Makhmur, a Kurdish refugee camp in northern Iraq. We will not allow the gruesome separatist organisation to use Makhmur as an incubator for terrorism, Mr Erdogan wrote on Twitter. We will continue to exterminate terrorism at its source, he said.
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