The quarantine regime has been introduced in Nur-Sultan and Almaty Since March 19

The state Commission for ensuring the state of emergency under the President of Kazakhstan has introduced a quarantine regime in the cities of Nur-Sultan and Almaty since March 19, reports zakon.kz.

Prime Minister Askar Mamin chaired a meeting of the State Commission for ensuring the state of emergency under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Health Minister Yelzhan Birtanov, Deputy Prime Minister Yeraly Tugzhanov, akims of Nur-Sultan Altay Kulginov and Almaty Bakytzhan Sagintayev, defense Ministers Nurlan Yermekbayev and internal Affairs Yerlan Turgumbayev, as well as Deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan Malik Murzalin reported on the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the cities of Nur-Sultan and Almaty.

 

Taking into account the complicated situation with the spread of COVID-19 in the cities of Nur-Sultan and Almaty, as well as in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus to other cities of Kazakhstan, the State Commission decided to introduce additional restrictive, preventive and anti-epidemic measures in the cities of Nur-Sultan and Almaty, according to the website of the Prime Minister.

Entered from 00.00 h. March 19 measures include:

- introduction of quarantine and implementation of large-scale sanitary and anti-epidemic measures;

- establishing the perimeter of the quarantine zone and determining points of entry/exit from it;

- restrictions on the movement of people, as well as the entry/exit of vehicles;

- ensuring the smooth operation of special medical institutions in three categories: for infected, suspected of infection, quarantined;

- identification of sectors of the territory of cities and their borders to limit the movement of citizens, optimal for the organization of food supply to the population and the functioning of the life support system;

- suspension or restriction of public transport during the day and termination at night;

- suspension of the operation of non-food retail markets, large shopping centers and trading houses, with the exception of objects located in them for the sale of food and medicines;

- establishment of a new mode of operation of public catering facilities on the principle of "delivery to customers", with the strengthening of sanitary and anti-epidemiological measures;

- reorganization of the PSC operation mode;

- determination of the daily needs of the population of the quarantine zones and each of the sectors for food, medicines, life-support items and basic necessities;

- identification of centers for trade and provision of food and essential goods for each of the sectors of the quarantine zone, taking into account the minimization of public transport;

- other measures of an organizational nature.