Medical workers perform swab tests at a mobile test site in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, June 16, 2020. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)
Since the new nationwide lockdown was imposed on July 5, the country's COVID-19 reproduction rate has dropped from 1.15 to 0.82.
NUR-SULTAN, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan registered 722 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, taking its total to 100,164, including 1,269 deaths and 73,702 recoveries.
From Aug. 1 to 11, Kazakhstan has also recorded 13,337 pneumonia cases with clinical signs of COVID-19, with 173 pneumonia-related deaths.
Health Minister Alexei Tsoi said Tuesday that since the new nationwide lockdown was imposed on July 5, the country's COVID-19 reproduction rate has dropped from 1.15 to 0.82, while the incidence of coronavirus cases among the population has dropped from 56.73 to 36.2 per 100,000 people.
Tsoi said as its epidemic situation improves, the country will consider slowly easing quarantine measures. ■