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Kazakhstan's defense industry ventures start medical equipment manufacturing

Business Materials 3 April 2020 11:39 (UTC +04:00)
Kazakhstan's defense industry ventures start medical equipment manufacturing

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr. 3

By Nargiz Sadikhova – Trend:

Ventures of Kazakhstan’s defense industry started manufacturing civil general and medical goods to support the country in coronavirus battle, Trend reports with reference to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development.

Thus, Tynys plant in Kazakhstan’s Kokshetau city started manufacturing medical masks and portable ventilators which are to be installed in ambulances. The plant now operates 24/7 and its staff works three shifts a day.

Gidropribor and Zenit ventures operating in West Kazakhstan regions which manufacture military vessels and boats, also started manufacturing barriers and special tunnels to ensure decontamination of people.

Operating in North Kazakhstan, Petropavlovsk Plant of Heavy Machine Building, Kirov Plant, and MunayMash provided the region with disinfecting barriers for vehicles.

Kazakhstan Aselsan Engineering venture, which is a Kazakh-Turkish joint venture and is concerned with production of military night vision equipment, is in the process of starting manufacturing remote electro-optical devices for measuring peoples’ body temperature.

Alma-DK and Kalkan-7 ventures for manufacturing of non-lethal weapons and practical ammunition (Almaty city) started manufacturing of special disinfectants and protective suits.

Defense industry ventures also provided financial assistance to the country’s Armed Forces to supply military personnel with decontamination goods.

At the same time, mentioned above defense industry ventures go on implementing state defense order for 2020 in accordance with the approved schedule.

The latest data said that the overall number of coronavirus cases in Kazakhstan reported since the outbreak began is 448.

First two cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Kazakhstan among those who arrived in Almaty city from Germany on March 13, 2020.

On March 15, 2020, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym Jomart Tokayev signed a decree introducing an emergency state in Kazakhstan due to the coronavirus outbreak, which came in force from 08:00 (GMT +6) on March 16 and will last till 08:00 April 15, 2020.

By a decision of State Commission on Provision of Emergency State under the president of Kazakhstan, quarantine regime has been introduced in Kazakhstan’s Nur-Sultan and Almaty cities at 00:00 (GMT +6) on March 19, 2020.

The outbreak of the coronavirus began in the Chinese city of Wuhan (an international transport hub), at a fish market in late December 2019. The number of people killed by the disease has surpassed 53,000. Over a million people have been confirmed as infected. Meanwhile, over 211,000 people have reportedly recovered.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11. Some sources claim the coronavirus outbreak started as early as November 2019.

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