BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr. 28
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Manufacturing of disinfection complexes has been launched at Kazakhstan’s Semipalatinsk Machine-Building Plant JSC, Trend reports with reference to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development.
The ministry said that company's employees developed and manufactured a first batch of disinfection systems.
The disinfection complex is a tunnel made of metal and polycarbonate which has a pump station with a spray installed, and which sprays a disinfectant under high pressure. The mechanism is triggered by a motion sensor.
The ministry also said that the first disinfection tunnel was gifted to the Semey city, and will be installed to be used in crowded places.
Currently, negotiations are underway with industrial ventures for them to acquire the disinfection tunnels to ensure the health safety of the country’s residents.
The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Kazakhstan has reached 3,019. The 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 on March 16 and was to last till April 15, 2020.
By a decree of Kazakhstan's president, the emergency state period in Kazakhstan was extended till May 1, 2020 and then till May 11, 2020.
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