Turkey records nearly 45,000 Covid-19 cases as Omicron spreads
Turkey recorded 44,869 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest daily figure since late April, health ministry data showed on Monday.
Turkey recorded 44,869 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest daily figure since late April, health ministry data showed on Monday.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he was saddened by his country’s 2021 annual inflation after it soared to 36.1%, adding his government was determined to lower it to single digits.
Police in the western city of Patras have arrested a well-known boxing coach following accusations that he sexually harassed a 14-year-old female athlete.
Infections with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus account for 70% of all new cases across five regions of Greece – Attica, Thessaloniki, Patra, Thessaly and Crete – in the last few days, the head of the National Public Health Organization (EODY), Theoklis Zaoutis, said Monday.
Ninety-two members of the medical staff in Athens’ Evangelismos Hospital, Greece’s largest, have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days and been quarantined, while patient visits have been banned, the hospital’s manager said Monday.
The transmission of the Omicron variant is expected to peak quickly and start levelling off later in January, based on how it behaved in South Africa, expert epidemiologist and member of the panel of experts advising the government, Dr. Gkikas Magiorkinis, said in an interview with the state-run radio station Praktoreio on Monday.
New cases of the coronavirus jumped past the 36,000-mark again on Monday, after 17,633 on Sunday when there is significantly less testing, and 30,010 the day before.
Fines imposed on members of the Pakistani community who gathered at Syntagma Square to celebrate the New Year without wearing masks will not be cancelled, Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos said on Monday.
Stefanos Tsitsipas showed little sign of the elbow problem that forced him out of his ATP Cup singles opener but failed to find a way past Diego Schwartzman as the Argentine won an epic battle 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3 on Monday to hand Greece a 2-0 defeat.
The government is seeking to introduce support measures to ensure jobs will not be lost due to the fresh surge in the coronavirus pandemic – just as the economy was on the mend – to protect businesses from high energy costs, avert an extensive impact of inflation in early 2022, and to make sure that…