Turkey has recorded 77,722 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, a negative record since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country, according to official figures, while Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said the variant of the new coronavirus Omicron would reduce its severity. pandemic due to the lower hospitalization rate.
Hospitals increased by 10% last month, although daily cases quadrupled, Kotza said after a meeting of the government’s advisory scientific council, which also adjusted test and isolation requirements.
“We have recorded a higher number of hospitalizations with a lower number of cases in previous periods of the pandemic. It seems that the Omicron variant will reduce the risk of a pandemic,” he said.
At the end of December, the number of cases per day was about 20,000.
At the same time, in the last 24 hours, 145 deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded. The death toll from complications of the disease has not increased in recent weeks despite the increase in the number of daily cases.
The Minister of Health also stated that those who came in contact with someone who is ill with Covid-19 will not be ordered to do a PCR test and will have to be isolated from now on.
He added that only those who show symptoms of the disease will undergo PCR from now on, adding that those who are diagnosed positive can end their isolation after seven days without doing another test.
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