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Turkey's Erdogan tests negative for COVID-19 -state media

FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv, Ukraine February 3, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who has been isolating since Saturday after contracting the coronavirus, tested negative for COVID-19 on Thursday, state-owned Anadolu news agency cited his doctor as saying.

Erdogan said on Saturday he had tested positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

"The PCR tests we have done over the past two days have come back negative," Erdogan's doctor Serkan Topaloglu was quoted as saying. "I think the President will go back to his routine programme very soon, even tomorrow," he added.

(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Catherine Evans)

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