NUR-SULTAN, February 2. /TASS/. Kazakhstan’s doctors registered 1,161 new coronavirus cases in the past day, 98 fewer than a day earlier, and the total case tally hit 189,131, the government’s commission for preventing the coronavirus spread reported on Tuesday.
In the past eight days some 1,161-1,469 daily COVID-19 cases were registered. Some 1% of the Central Asian republic’s 18.8 mln population were infected. The coronavirus spread rate in the past eight days reached 0.9. A record high of 1,962 coronavirus cases were confirmed on July 9.
A total of 169,963 people have recovered, with 1,195 recoveries registered in the past 24 hours, according to the commission. The death toll has reached 2,556, climbing by 7 in the past day.
As of January 25, as many as 6,399,596 COVID-19 tests were carried out among 34% of the population. Some 2.9% of those who passed tests were infected.
On August 1, the Kazakh Health Ministry changed its method for counting coronavirus cases. Apart from confirmed COVID-19 patients, the data now includes patients diagnosed with pneumonia who test negative for the coronavirus but have symptoms similar to COVID-19. As many as 47,874 such cases and 570 deaths were recorded in the country as of February 1.
On February 1, Kazakhstan launched mass vaccination with Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine produced in Russia. Since February 15, Kazakhstan plans to use Sputnik V vaccine manufactured at the Karagandinsky pharmaceutical facility. In the second quarter of the year, the republic is preparing to start mass production of Kazakhstan’s QazCOVID-in vaccine, which is now undergoing the third stage of clinical trials.