Jakarta –
Turkey continues to record record number of daily cases of Corona virus infection amid the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. According to Turkish Health Ministry data on Wednesday (12/1) local time, the country recorded 77,722 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the highest daily figure since the pandemic began.
Even so, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said the Omicron variant would reduce the severity of the pandemic due to lower patient hospitalization rates.
Koca said hospitalizations increased 10 percent in the last month, although daily cases had quadrupled.
In addition to this news, the following are international news that attracts readers’ attention detik.com, today, Thursday (13/1/2022):
– Omicron Skyrockets, Australia Records Record 147K New Cases a Day!
Authority Australia on Thursday (13/1) reported the number of daily cases of infection COVID-19 the biggest in the midst of rapid transmission varian Omicron.
After successfully controlling the coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic, Australia has reported nearly a million cases over the past two weeks. This comes as people slowly adjust to the coronavirus amid fewer restrictions. The total number of infections detected since the pandemic began to approach 1.4 million cases.
Reported from the news agency Reuters, Thursday (13/1/2022), more than 147,000 new cases COVID-19 was recorded this Thursday in Australia, with about 92,000 cases in the most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), although that includes the backlog of positive tests at home since early January.
It was reported that the rates of hospital inpatients and people admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) were at their highest levels during the pandemic. However, Australian authorities say the health system can cope with the increase in cases.
– Sex Exchanged with Good Values for Students, Lecturers Jailed for 2 Years
Court Morocco sentenced a university lecturer to two years in prison, accused of soliciting sexual favors in exchange for his student’s good grades.
Reported from the news agency AFP, Thursday (13/1/2022), local media reported this was the first verdict in the “sex for good grades” scandal rocking the North African country since September 2021. This case came to the public after the local media Morocco preaching messages between a number of lecturers and students that were leaked to social media.
Local media reported that the defendant, a lecturer in economics at Hassan I University in Settat near Casablanca, was sentenced to prison on Wednesday (12/1) local time after being found guilty of “indecent behavior”, “violence” and “sexual harassment“.
China Closes Hospitals That Refuse Pregnant Women During Lockdown
Two hospitals in the city Xi’an, China which is below lockdown related COVID-19, has been temporarily closed. Hospitals closed include one that refused to treat an eight-month pregnant woman who later miscarried.
It is known that Xi’an, one of the few cities in China who have experienced the Corona virus outbreak, have undergone lockdown three weeks of tight control is in line with Beijing’s “zero-COVID” strategy.
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