On the 14th local time, the Kazakhstan Ministry of Defence News released a message saying that Major General Bakht Kurmanbayev, deputy defense minister, died on the 14th due to infection with the new coronavirus, at the age of 50.
Kurmanbayev graduated from Ali Faraby State University in Kazakhstan in 1993, studied at the Army Air Defense Military Academy in 2005, and graduated from the Advanced Academy of Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Armed Forces in 2008. In 2009, Major General Kurmanbayev was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense, responsible for logistics, weapons and nuclear military equipment, and medical support. (Reporter Cao Shengji)