In Kazakhstan, from January 5, 2022, it is proposed to introduce additional preventive measures

At a Government meeting today, Acting Minister of Health Zhandos Burkitbayev reported on the epidemiological situation in the country.
Zh. Burkitbayev said that the coronavirus epidemic situation in Kazakhstan is stable. He also noted that the incidence of coronavirus has decreased by 32% over the past two weeks.
To date, 15 regions of the country are in the green zone, the North Kazakhstan region and the city of Nur-Sultan are in the yellow zone, there are no regions in the red zone.
Vaccination of the population of the Republic of Kazakhstan against COVID-19 continues.
The coverage of the subject adult population by the first component was 78.6%, the second component was 74.4% of the subject adult population.
The Acting Minister of Health stressed the need to increase the rate of vaccination of the population, taking into account the increase in morbidity and the spread of the omicron strain in the world, and also noted that it is necessary to complete the vaccination of the subject population.
He added that since the beginning of vaccination, 95% of cases have been unvaccinated.
At the same time, according to the results of a number of foreign studies in vaccinated people, protection from infection decreases after 6 months by an average of 1.8 times.
At present, it is important to maintain the stability of the current CVI surveillance situation.
In addition, from December to the 1st quarter of 2022, it is planned to supply 5.0 million doses of the vaccine.
During his speech, Zhandos Burkitbayev proposed to strengthen additional preventive measures from January 5, 2022 in terms of allowing entry to shopping and entertainment centers, trading houses, retail chains, sports and wellness centers and fitness centers, yoga centers, karaoke, swimming pools, saunas, baths, banks, branches of Kazpost JSC, PSC only to persons with green status according to the ASHYQ application.