Sagintayev urged to turn the tide in the fight against coronavirus together
Akim of Almaty Bakhytzhan Sagintayev appealed to Almaty residents to speed up the reception of vaccinations against COVID-19 - along with "Sputnik V", citizens are offered QazVac and Vero Cell vaccines.
Today, there are 167 vaccination points in medical organizations, schools, cultural and sports facilities, markets and the city's shopping and entertainment center. 234 vaccination teams of 1038 people were involved. To date, vaccination is carried out with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, the Kazakh QazVac and the new Chinese vaccine Vero Cell.
During the weekly communication with the townspeople in the live broadcast of Akimat LIVE on the Almaty television channel, the akim of the city B. Sagintayev spoke about the current epidemiological situation. As of August 18, 125,530 cases of coronavirus infection were registered in the metropolis, of which 104,950 cases were with symptoms and 20,580 - without symptoms, 2,133 cases of unspecified pneumonia.
“From September 1, about 300 thousand schoolchildren, 68 thousand college students, 170 thousand university students will start offline education. We must think about the personal responsibility of everyone in order not to put our children at risk, to protect them from illness, to prevent a new outbreak of infection in the city, ”B. Sagintayev emphasized.
In 24 hours, on August 17, 1,403 cases of coronavirus infection were registered, of which 1,319 were with symptoms and 84 without symptoms, unknown pneumonia - 3. In infectious diseases hospitals with a capacity of 8,910 beds there are 6,074 patients, including 188 children. Of the total number of hospitalized 235 in extremely severe, 2,046 in severe, 3,793 in moderate severity. A total of 603 were discharged, 771 were admitted. There are 434 patients in the intensive care units. On ventilator - 65, on non-invasive ventilator - 188, High flow used 194 devices.
Today, at home, under the supervision of mobile teams of primary health care and the Telemedicine center, there are 13 532 patients, of which 543 are asymptomatic, 12 687 with mild and 301 with moderate severity. Of the total number of inpatients, 1,462 were discharged from infectious diseases hospitals for further observation and isolation on an outpatient basis.
As of August 18, 823,223 people received the vaccine, including 5,202 police officers, 27,766 teachers, 32,395 health workers. 108,775 people (13.2%) of the total number of vaccinated persons over 60 years old. To date, 648,959 people have been vaccinated with two components.