NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan – Quarantine has been extended from July 20 to August 2 in Kazakhstan, Prime Minister Askar Mamin said on July 14.

“At the suggestion of the Ministry of Health to further stabilise the epidemiological situation, we decided to extend the restrictive measures in the republic for another 2 weeks – since July 20 to August 2,” Mamin told a government meeting on July 14.

The second week of strict restrictive quarantine measures is currently underway, the incidence rate is stabilising, he noted.

In connection with the extension of quarantine, the government will pay benefits to low-income Kazakhs in the amount of 42,500 tenge in one month ($1-411,6 tenge).

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Meanwhile, the head of the WHO office in Kazakhstan, Caroline Clarinval, urged not to rush to conclusions that pneumonia of unknown etiology is rampant in Kazakhstan. In order to find out the causes of an unprecedented outbreak of pneumonia, a group of experts of WHO will be sent to Kazakhstan.

“I think that there is no need to draw hasty conclusions yet. Yes, the number of cases of pneumonia has increased since the beginning of June, and we have been instructed to look into the situation. The Ministry of Health is also doing this. These messages have attracted a lot of media attention, but we, before making conclusions, must collect data and analyse them,” Clarinval said in an interview for the UN website.

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Mike Ryan, WHO Program Manager for Emergency Situations, previously stated that unknown pneumonia is most likely nothing more than COVID-19.

“Perhaps some patients asked for medical help late and they have signs of pneumonia, but we still can’t detect the presence of the virus. We also need to find out the capabilities of local laboratories – we know that sometimes there are so-called false negative results. All this will become subject to evaluation. WHO will also send a group of laboratory research experts to the country,” Clarinval added.

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However, she noted that the increase in the number of new cases of coronavirus infection may not necessarily be associated with the premature removal of the strict quarantine measures introduced in Kazakhstan in March. The reason may be that the country’s population did not respond correctly to quarantine removal.

For a day in Kazakhstan, 1856 patients with coronavirus infection were identified. A total of 61 755 cases were registered in the country.

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