istanbul the number of delta variant covid19 cases in turkey has risen to some 750 from 284 seven days ago and overall cases climbed 20 at the weekend compared to a week earlier health minister fahrettin koca saidturkey eased most coronavirusrelated restrictions on july 1 after daily cases tumbled from a peak above 60000 in april to around 5000 but koca said new figures pointed to a risethese increases have emerged more in places where the level of inoculations is low koca told reporters after a cabinet meeting on monday noting rising cases in provinces of southeast turkeyhe called on people to get vaccinated and said that around 61 of the adult population had received at least one dose of vaccine he has set a target level of 70 by the time of the eid aladha holiday next weekturkey has reported 55 million covid19 cases and 50000 deaths in total a vaccination programme has ramped up to around a million shots per day in recent weeks with 38 million receiving at least one dose out of a population of 84 millionturkeys vaccine programme began in january with shots developed by sinovac and now also includes vaccines by pfizer and biontech and russias sputnik vdelta variant cases have now been recorded in 36 provinces up from 30 a week earlier while a total of three delta plus cases have been registered koca saidthe ministry was not proposing new restrictions and while there was currently no new wave of cases this could not be ruled out with the way to avoid this being increased vaccinations he saidhe added that he did not want to make vaccinations compulsory and the ministry instead aimed to convince people to get inoculated with plans to increase mobile inoculation teams