(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Hadan's newly confirmed diagnosis will continue to increase the scale of mask production
China News Agency, Nur-Sultan, June 21 (Reporter Wen Longjie) According to the latest data released by the Kazakh Ministry of Health, the country continued its recent increase on the 20th, adding 1062 new cases of coronary pneumonia, including 446 patients with clinical symptoms , 616 asymptomatic patients.
Kazakhstan has rebounded significantly since the national emergency was lifted on May 11, and the situation has worsened in recent days. The number of newly diagnosed cases has repeatedly broken new highs, and the number of new cases increased by more than one thousand per day has become almost normal. The successive diagnosis of Kazakhstan’s first president Nazarbayev, the speaker of the lower house of the parliament, Nygmatulin, and Deputy Prime Minister Tugjanov and high-ranking officials made the situation of the Kazakh epidemic more noticeable.
Kazakhstan is now the country with the largest number of diagnoses and deaths in Central Asia. As of the morning of the 21st, a total of 26,070 cases were diagnosed, including 17,225 patients with clinical symptoms and 8,845 cases with asymptomatic patients; 10,671 patients were cured and 118 patients died.
In view of the current epidemic situation, Kazakhstan’s capital, Nur-Sultan, implemented a temporary strengthening of segregation control measures this weekend. Citizens must be isolated at home for no special reason and enter the “quiet” mode. According to the official of the city of Nur-Sultan, the new coronary pneumonia patients admitted to the city have reached 90% of the capacity of the designated hospitals, approaching the "full load" limit.
The chief health officer of Kazakhstan, Yesima Khanbetova, said that as of now, a total of 1,904 medical personnel in the country have been infected with new coronary pneumonia, which has doubled from April, and 30% of them have been infected during work. At present, there are 9 medical mask manufacturing enterprises in Harbin, with a daily output of 490,000. In the future, we will vigorously increase the production scale to meet the current demand. In addition, Kazakhstan plans to jointly produce ventilators with national enterprises such as Turkey and China to fill the current gap.
The Deputy Minister of Health of Kazakhstan Aktayeva said that there are currently 56 laboratories for detecting new coronavirus in Kazakhstan. Since the first case of new coronary pneumonia was diagnosed on March 13, more than 1.2 million tests have been conducted. Up to 28,000 person-times. (Finish)