Turkey shortens the quarantine period of COVID-19 patients

The quarantine period will end if the person has a negative test result on the fifth day of the isolation, he added.

Turkey has shortened the quarantine period of COVID-19 patients, the country's health minister said Wednesday, Qazet.az informs, citing foreign media.

The Turkish medical experts decided to "rearrange the quarantine periods, considering the current conditions," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in a written statement after a meeting of Turkey's coronavirus science council.

Accordingly, the quarantine period will end for people who show mild or no symptoms after the seventh day, the minister said.

The quarantine period will end if the person has a negative test result on the fifth day of the isolation, he added.

Koca also said that despite the spread of the omicron strain in the country and the continuing growth in the daily increase of the coronavirus patients, 'the in-person education in schools will continue.'

"Our schools won't close unless all our facilities close," the minister said.