ALMATY – Kazakhstan will extend its moment of coronavirus blocking for two weeks until the end of July and will once again offer monetary assistance to those who have lost their source of income, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Monday.
Kazakhstan, which reported an explosive expansion in new cases of COVID-19 and pneumonia after restrictions were lifted in May, entered a second, albeit less stringent, blockade on July 5 to curb the spread of the virus.
“There are first signs now that the situation is beginning to improve,” he said in a tweet. “The next two weeks are important for the full stabilization of the situation.”
The oil-rich Central Asian nation has confirmed almost 60,000 cases of the disease with 375 deaths and reported shortages of hospital beds and popular medicines. (Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Toby Chopra and Raissa Kasolowsky)
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