Indonesia detects first omicron case in hospital worker

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia has detected its archetypal lawsuit of the omicron variant of the coronavirus successful a cleaning idiosyncratic astatine a infirmary successful Jakarta, the country’s wellness curate said Thursday.

The diligent has nary symptoms and is being quarantined astatine the Athlete’s Village exigency hospital, wherever the diligent worked. The authorities created the installation successful March 2020 to dainty COVID-19 patients and arsenic a quarantine venue for Indonesians returning from abroad.

Indonesia’s Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said the lawsuit was recovered connected Wednesday, and helium urged radical to proceed pursuing recommended wellness protocols, including wearing masks and maintaining carnal distance.

He besides called for accrued investigating and to accelerate the country’s vaccination program.

Indonesia, arsenic of Wednesday, had recorded much than 4.2 cardinal COVID-19 cases and much than 143,000 deaths. During the highest of the past surge successful July, it deed 56,757 cases per time arsenic hospitals became overwhelmed by sick patients and ran retired of beds and oxygen supplies.