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Minister of Health Koca has made a statement after the Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board meeting: The PCR test will only be applied to those who have symptoms and the ones who have received their booster shots will not be quarantined.

While Turkey has recently reported the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases, Health Minister Koca has released a statement after the Coronavirus Science Board meeting and announced that the quarantine period for positive cases will be 7 days.

Turkey has imposed a ban on travel from five African countries after the emergence of a new coronavirus variant, the Omicron, which has been declared the “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Prof. Gülay Korukluoğlu, a member of the Health Ministry’s Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board, has warned that 80 percent of the coronavirus cases will be caused by the Delta variant in August.

İstanbul Family Medicine Association Chair Dr. Demir has spoken to bianet about the vaccination efforts in Turkey: “The Health Ministry gives appointments only for the second doses. The ones aged 55 and over are not given appointments now.”

While Health Minister Koca has announced that two people have contracted the South African variant and one citizen the Brazil variant of coronavirus, experts have shared details about the variants detected so far.