In Almaty, 65 people with "red" status were fined for trying to visit public places

In Almaty, 65 people with "red" status were fined for trying to visit public places
 
The epidemiological situation in Almaty remains difficult with a tendency to worsen. This is due to the ongoing infection of the unvaccinated and unrecovered population with the delta strain of the coronavirus infection. At a meeting of the city headquarters to prevent the further spread of COVID, measures to stabilize the situation were considered.
 
According to the Department of Sanitary and Epidemiological Control of the city, since the beginning of this year, a total of 65,878 cases of COVID have been registered in Almaty. Over the past 2 weeks, in comparison with the previous 2 weeks, the cases of COVID increased 2.6 times, the daily increase was more than 1%. From July 1 to July 18, 10,093 cases of COVID were registered, which corresponds to a pessimistic forecast of 10,700 cases.
 
The reason for the growth is known - the spread in the city since June 18 of the "delta" variant, which is more contagious and more often causes severe clinical manifestations. Over the past 7 days, the proportion of "symptomatic" patients continues to grow from 88% in the previous 7 days to 90%, against 50% during the first wave of the epidemic last year, caused by the Wuhan variant of COVID-19.
 
The city's Department of Sanitary and Epidemiological Control specialists made a forecast of the development of the sanitary and epidemiological situation in terms of COVID for the next 3 months, until September 30. According to the baseline forecast, the incidence will peak on 3-4 August with about 1600 new cases registered per day. According to the pessimistic forecast, the peak incidence will be recorded on August 10-11, with up to 1,900 new cases registered per day.
 
According to the baseline forecast, the employment of the bed capacity will reach 5-5.5 thousand hospital beds at the peak and, according to the pessimistic forecast, 6-6.5 thousand beds at the peak. Thus, according to the baseline scenario, 27.5 thousand cases of COVID are predicted in July, 34.5 thousand in August, and 4.5 thousand in September. According to the pessimistic forecast, 29 thousand cases of COVID are predicted in July, and 49 in August. , 5 thousand, in September - 13.5 thousand cases.
 
In order to provide offline education for schoolchildren, work is being carried out to monitor and vaccinate teachers. To date, 97% of teachers have been vaccinated with component I, and 67.9% with component II. In addition, 97.3% of medical workers were vaccinated with component I, 67.3% - with component II.
 
An analysis of the age composition over the past 2 weeks showed the previous targeting of the virus to children and young people due to the high contagiousness of the delta variant. The proportion of children under 14 years old increased by 1% and remains high at the level of 14%. There has been a decrease in the incidence among citizens from 20 to 40 years old - from 39% to 37.5%. The proportion of sick citizens of 40-59 years old remains high - at the level of 25%. The proportion of infections among people aged 60 years increased by 1.1%.
 
In terms of population employment, over the past 14 days, the incidence of COVID still prevails among the self-employed - 41%, employees of various LLPs, individual entrepreneurs, JSCs - 17%, pensioners - 16.4%, as well as schoolchildren - 9.2% and preschool children - 6.4%, accounting for 90% of the total number of cases.
 
The main places of infection with COVID over the past 7 days are shopping centers - 40%, public transport - 20%, contacts in families - 19%, markets - 16%.
 
In Almaty, 2282 participants are working under the Ashyq project. In the period from July 9 to July 14, the facts of not carrying out the minimum number of registrations of visitors by the QR code (check-in) were not revealed. 100 members are the leaders of the Ashyq project. In the period from April 26 to July 14, 211 unscrupulous participants were excluded from the project.
 
When scanning in Ashyq from July 9 to July 14, 31 people with "red" status were fined 30 monthly notional units for violating the self-isolation regime. In total, from April 28 to July 14, 65 people with "red" status were fined 30 monthly notional units for violating the self-isolation regime.
 
Most often, violators tried to enter public catering facilities, where 58 people with "red" and 13 with "yellow" status were identified. At the entrances to the mall, 28 people with "red" and 10 with "yellow" status were identified. 9 people with "red" status tried to enter the Almaty airport.
 
In this regard, the city headquarters, to prevent the further spread of COVID urges the townspeople who are on outpatient treatment not to violate the regime of self-isolation and to show civic responsibility to society. Persons who have been in contact with the infected should also observe the self-isolation regime and refrain from visiting crowded places in order to avoid infecting other people.