About the epidemiological situation of novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV in Kazakhstan as on February 2, 2020, 07.00 AM

We continue to monitor people arriving from the People’s Republic of China and neighboring countries. Thus, 27448 people have arrived to Kazakhstan for the period from January 6 until February 2, 2020.

Specialists of the Committee for Quality and Safety of Goods and Services of the Ministry of Healthcare examined 20613 people at the international airports of Almaty and Nur-Sultan, and 399 people at railway stations.

To date, 80 people have been hospitalized and isolated in separate boxes with a temperature and signs of acute respiratory viral infections, 39 have been discharged, 41 people remain in hospitals under medical supervision.

For additional epidemiological control, samples taken from all hospitalized patients were sent to the National Scientific Center for Highly Infectious Diseases in Almaty. Specialists in this center have studied the methodology for PCR diagnostics of a novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV.

Kazakhstan has all the necessary drugs and medical devices for maintenance therapy, prepared places with boxes for isolation in infectious hospitals, medical and paramedical personnel.

It is worth mentioning that the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan constantly controls the overall situation.

All the official information is available on the Facebook account of the Ministry of Healthcare and by phone in a 24/7 Call-Center at 1406.