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KPK investigator Novel Baswedan was positively infected by the Corona Virus

CNN Indonesia

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia - Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan tested positive for the corona virus (Covid-19). Novel has undergone a swab test and the results are positive, then undergoing independent isolation.

"That's right. The information we received was one of the investigators who based on the swab test it was confirmed that Corona was positive," said KPK spokesman Ali Fikri when contacted, Friday (28/8).

Ali said Novel and other employees who tested positive for the corona virus had undergone independent isolation. The KPK, he continued, is working with the hospital to continue to monitor the health developments of employees who are positively infected with Covid-19.

Citing reports from a number of media, Novel felt that he did not feel any symptoms that made him lie weak. He admitted that he only had symptoms in the form of fever and cough, but this did not mean that he had to be hospitalized.

It is known that during May-July, 7 KPK employees tested positive for the corona virus. Five of them have recovered and two are undergoing quarantine.

After that, the KPK conducted mass swab tests for employees and a number of suspects and detainees who were suspected of having made contact.

Most recently, the KPK stated that 14 people were positively infected with the corona virus. They are 9 employees, 4 non-employees and 1 prisoner.

"It has been found that 9 employees from several directorate units at the KPK, 4 non-employees and 1 detainee have tested positive for Covid-19," said KPK spokesman Ali Fikri in his statement, Thursday (27/8).

So far, there have been 162,884 people in Indonesia who have tested positive for the corona virus as of Thursday (27/8). A total of 118,575 of them have been declared cured and 7,604 have died.

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