Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin held a conference call meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission on preventing the spread of coronavirus infection in the territory of Kazakhstan

The spread of coronavirus infection in Kazakhstan is at a controlled level. The daily increase in new cases of coronavirus infection is 0.4%, the reproductive rate is 0.9. the Occupancy rate of infectious beds is 28%, intensive care beds-20%. 5 regions are located in areas of high and moderate risks: Atyrau, Kostanay, Pavlodar, North Kazakhstan and Akmola regions. In January-February of next year, against the background of the growth of SARS and flu, there is a risk of increasing the incidence of coronavirus infection.
In this regard, the IMC made a number of decisions:
1. from December 25, 2020 to January 5, 2021, establish a ban on holding entertainment, sports and other mass events, including new year's matinees and festive corporate events.
2. Strengthen restrictive measures at the Tengiz field until the epidemiological situation stabilizes.
3. Take measures to reduce the prices of anti-steroid drugs in the retail network by an average of 24%.
At the same time, in order to ensure the quality of education, at the suggestion of the Ministry of education and science, as well as taking into account the opinion of the public, a decision was made:
from the third quarter of the academic year for the final classes (9,11,12 classes) to provide combined training (70% of subjects – in the traditional format, 30% - remotely) in compliance with sanitary and epidemiological requirements;
from the third quarter of the school year, to compensate for the loss of knowledge of students in extracurricular time, organize individual consultations in groups of no more than 5 people.;
from the second semester to resume combined training of first-year students of colleges and universities. The head of Government instructed akims, depending on the epidemiological situation in the region, to take the necessary restrictive measures in order to stabilize the situation.