ISTANBUL --
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has examined optimistic for COVID-19, he tweeted Saturday.
"Right now my spouse and I examined optimistic for COVID-19 with delicate signs. Fortunately, we're experiencing slight signs that we now have discovered is the omicron variant," he wrote. "We're on responsibility. We are going to proceed to work from home. We sit up for your prayers."
Erdogan, 67, despatched the message after showing through videolink at a tunnel-opening ceremony from Istanbul, having canceled his look in particular person.
The president confirmed no indicators of sickness in his televised look. Erdogan's spouse Emine tweeted that they hoped to get by way of their sickness collectively as quickly as doable.
The president's well being is a sensitive topic in Turkey. Investigations had been launched in opposition to social media customers in November for "manipulative" tweets amid hypothesis about his well being.
Erdogan, a former semi-professional soccer participant, underwent surgical procedure on his decrease gut in 2011. He has continuously denied studies that he had most cancers and maintains a busy schedule, usually giving a number of speeches a day.
Turkey has seen report ranges of COVID-19 instances in current days, with 111,157 instances reported by the Well being Ministry on Friday. In late December, each day instances stood at about 20,000 however have risen as a result of extremely transmissible omicron variant.
The nation can be seeing a excessive variety of fatalities resulting from COVID-19, with 248 deaths reported on Friday, a stage not seen since October.
FILE - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a ceremony to inaugurate a Turkey-financed freeway linking Belgrade with Bosnia's capital of Sarajevo in Sremska Raca throughout his two-day official go to, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. (Presidential Press Service through AP, Pool)
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