The number of new cases of coronavirus infection in Kazakhstan over the past week increased by at least 1.4 times. About this on the air of the Khabar-24 TV channel, the chairman of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Control Committee under the Ministry of Health of the Republic Aizhan Esagambambetova.
According to her, such a sharp increase is associated with the arrival of the Omicron-strain of infection, as well as intensive internal migration of citizens in the New Year holidays. “At the same time, 75 percent of the morbidity fall into three regions – these are Almaty, the city of Nur-Sultan and the city of Shymkent,” Yesmaggambetova said.
she indicated that only over the past day, Kazakh doctors revealed 1510 new cases of COVID-19. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Kazakhstan found more than a million infected. They died, according to the Ministry of Health, over 18 thousand people.
Earlier, President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev declared nationwide mourning for those who died on protests, which began due to increased gas prices and turned into mass riots. We are talking about 18 law enforcement officers who were killed when the demonstrations are suppressed. The number of dead protesters still remains unknown.