"168 out of 1,981 tests conducted within the past 24 hours turned out to be positive. The number of infected people has reached 359. Unfortunately, we have lost an 85-year-old woman, the death toll has reached four [people]", Koca wrote on his Twitter page on late Thursday.
On Wednesday, Turkey reported its second death from the new coronavirus.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. More than 240,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 9,800 fatalities, according to John Hopkins University.