ALMATY – Former Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, recovered from COVID-19 in mid-June, his spokesman said Thursday.
Nazarbayev, who serves next week, retains broad powers such as Yelbasy, or national leader, and president of the Central Asian nation’s security council, and is recognized as a guarantor of political stability.
“Today, Yelbasy tested negative for COVID-19,” his spokesman Aidos Ukibay wrote on Twitter.
Nazarbayev will be remote and paint remotely, Ukibay said. He also posted a photo of Nazarbayev coming out of a forest and a screenshot of an activity tracking app indicating that Nazarbayev had walked 2.5 kilometers. (Reporting through Olzhas Auyezov; Edited through Catherine Evans)
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