BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 18
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana airline company and its subsidiary - FlyArystan lowcoster are suspending implementation of a number of flights due to emergency state in the country, Air Astana Told Trend.
The company said that suspension of flights is due to quarantine regimen imposed in Almaty and Nur-Sultan cities, as well as of other preventive measures taken in the country.
“The international flights are being implemented as little as possible and only with a goal to bring Kazakh citizens back to Kazakhstan, as well as to allow foreigners leave the country. Our companies will continue flying to country’s regions if there is a possibility in order to bring passengers to their homes,” the company said.
On March 15, 2020, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym Jomart Tokayev signed a decree introducing an emergency state in Kazakhstan due to coronavirus outbreak, which will be relevant from 08:00 (GMT +6) on March 16 till 08:00 on April 15, 2020.
By a decision of State Commission on Provision of Emergency State under the president of Kazakhstan quarantine regime is being introduced at 00:00 (GMT +6) on March 19, 2020 in Kazakhstan’s Nur-Sultan and Almaty cities due to coronavirus outbreak.
On March 13, 2020, first two cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Kazakhstan among those who arrived in Almaty city from Germany. The latest data said that the overall number of coronavirus cases identified in Kazakhstan is 35 people.
The outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan - which is an international transport hub - began at a fish market in late December 2019. The number of people killed by the disease has surpassed 7,900. Over 198,000 people have been confirmed as infected. Meanwhile, over 81,000 people have reportedly recovered.
Some sources claim the coronavirus outbreak started as early as November 2019.
Several countries are working on a vaccine against the new virus.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
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