(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Kazakhstan's new diagnoses drop to double digits and 100 billion tenge subsidies will be issued to medical staff

  China News Agency, Nur-Sultan, September 1. According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan, as of September 1, the country has newly confirmed new cases of new coronary pneumonia in the past 24 hours and has symptoms of new coronary pneumonia but laboratory virus test results are negative There are 87 cases of pneumonia in China, which is the first time since the epidemic rebounded, the number of confirmed cases fell to double digits.

Data map: New crown pneumonia detection sites in Kazakhstan.

  Data shows that there were 77 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Kazakhstan that day.

Among the Kazakh prefectures, the number of newly diagnosed cases in most areas is controlled in single digits, with the largest number of newly diagnosed cases in East Kazakhstan (19 cases).

The capital Nur-Sultan, the capital of which the epidemic was severe, added 3 new cases that day, and the largest city Almaty added 4 cases.

  On the same day, 10 new cases of pneumonia with symptoms of new coronary pneumonia but negative laboratory virus test results were added.

However, this data has often shown great instability in the past, and there have been many "hard switching" between two-digit and three-digit numbers, so the future trend remains to be seen.

According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, the pneumonia belongs to new coronary pneumonia.

  As of September 1, a total of 131,596 cases of the above-mentioned "two pneumonias" have been diagnosed in Kazakhstan, and 1,880 have died.

  Kazakhstan is now the country with the largest number of confirmed cases and deaths in Central Asia, but thanks to the quarantine restrictions in the past period of time, the epidemic has slowed down.

Neighboring Uzbekistan plans to resume regular flights with Kazakhstan starting in September.

However, according to the information released by the Ministry of Transport of Ukraine, passengers traveling from Kazakhstan to Ukraine must provide a negative certificate of the new coronavirus nucleic acid test completed within 72 hours before departure, and the certificate must be in English or Russian.

  Kazakh President Tokayev stated in his State of the Union address on September 1 that the government will allocate 150 billion tenge (approximately RMB 2.45 billion) from the budget in the near future to distribute medical staff across the country for the second half of the year. subsidy.

  Tokayev also pointed out that by 2023, the basic salary of medical workers will reach twice the national minimum wage.

The current minimum wage in Kazakhstan is 42,500 tenge (about 693 yuan).

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