(Fighting against new crown pneumonia) Kazakhstan will resume some international flights and capital quarantine measures and then loosen
China News Agency, Nur-Sultan, November 3 (Reporter Zhang Shuo) Recently, Kazakhstan's epidemic data has continued to slow down, and the capital, Nur-Sultan, will continue to relax some epidemic prevention measures.
In addition, Kazakhstan will continue to resume some international flights.
On the 3rd, Sarkot Besenova, the chief health physician of Nur Sultan, signed a new decree on the relaxation of some anti-epidemic restrictions.
According to the decree, various commercial institutions in the capital will continue to promote the "Ashyq" health QR code system, and on this basis, some restrictions will be loosened.
Among them, commercial institutions participating in the "Ashyq" health QR code system will be able to further extend their business hours, and public institutions that have not joined the "Ashyq" system can also relax some restrictions in accordance with the epidemic prevention requirements.
Sarkot Besenova also reminded that all agencies must still strictly abide by the requirements of epidemic prevention regulations.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development, Kazakhstan will resume regular international flights with Azerbaijan.
According to sources, starting on the 6th of this month, Azerbaijan Airlines will resume flights from Baku, the capital of Afghanistan, to Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, once a week; starting on the 7th, Air Astana will resume flights from Almaty to Almaty. There are two flights to Baku every week.
In addition, civil aviation traffic between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan will also resume normal operations, and the restoration details are currently under discussion.
In addition, when Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Tugzhanov introduced the vaccination situation a few days ago, he pointed out that since February this year, more than 19.2 million doses of the new crown vaccine have been supplied to all of Kazakhstan.
Among them, more than 8.2 million people have received the first dose of vaccine, accounting for 71.9% of the population suitable for vaccination, accounting for 43.4% of the total population; nearly 7.4 million people have received the second dose of vaccine, accounting for 64.6% of the population suitable for vaccination, 39% of the total population %.
The vaccines currently available for people in Kazakhstan are Russian "Satellite V", Kazakhstan's domestic "QazVac" and Chinese national medicine vaccines.
According to Tugzhannov, the first batch of Pfizer vaccines will be received in November, totaling 4 million doses, which can be used to vaccinate 2 million people.
He said that in order to form herd immunity, the government decided that by the end of the year the number of people vaccinated would increase to 11.4 million, more than 60% of the total population.
As of 15:00 local time on the 3rd, Kazakhstan has newly confirmed more than 1,300 cases in the past 24 hours, with a total of more than 1.02 million confirmed cases.
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