Ankara, Jun 20 (IANS): The number of Turkey's daily Covid-19 vaccination has exceeded 1.5 million, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.

Turkey has started to administer vaccines to its citizens aged 30 and above, Xinhua news agency quoted Koca as saying in a tweet on Saturday.

Turkey on Saturday confirmed 5,480 new Covid cases, including 494 symptomatic patients, raising the total number in the country to 5,365,208, according to the Health Ministry.

The death toll from the virus rose by 51 to 49,122, while the total recoveries climbed to 5,228,419 after 4,195 more recovered in the last 24 hours.

The rate of pneumonia in Covid-19 patients stands at 3.4 per cent while the number of seriously ill patients is 829 in the country, said the Ministry.

A total of 215,496 tests were conducted over the past day, taking the overall number of tests in Turkey to 58,339,486.

Turkey started mass Covid-19 vaccination on January 14 after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine.

More than 26,576,000 people have been vaccinated so far.

Turkey reported its first Covid-19 case on March 11, 2020.