A 22-Syrian university student died from COVID-19 on Thursday in Gaziantep province southeastern Turkey, family and activists said.
Osama Hasso was a student in the economy school and the son of the Syrian journalist Alaa el-Din Hasso.
Turkey on Thursday confirmed 1,186 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total tally over 200,000, according to the country's health minister.
The country's death toll from the disease rose to 5,167, with 17 new fatalities reported over the last 24 hours.
Healthcare professionals conducted over 49,714 tests for the disease in the past day, raising the total count to over 3.48 million.
The pandemic has so far claimed over 517,100 lives in 188 countries and regions since it originated in China last December.
More than 10.74 million COVID-19 cases have been reported around the world, with recoveries exceeding 5.51 million, according to figures compiled by the US' Johns Hopkins University.
(Zaman Al Wasl, AA)
Zaman A Wasl
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