A employee sporting a protecting face masks following an outbreak of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) carries meat at a neighborhood meals market, also referred to as bazaar, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. PHOTO: REUTERS
ALMATY: Authorities in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have introduced contemporary restrictions aimed toward stopping the unfold of the coronavirus because the variety of circumstances in Central Asia snowballed.
In Kazakhstan, the place 52 circumstances have been confirmed, authorities mentioned on Saturday they had been closing all parks in Almaty, the nation’s largest metropolis, which was this week was placed on lockdown together with capital metropolis Nur-Sultan.
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Over the past two days, police and Nationwide Guard servicemen have additionally locked down a number of residential buildings in Almaty the place contaminated folks lived.
In Uzbekistan, with 33 confirmed circumstances, the federal government mentioned late on Friday it was shutting down all leisure venues and tea homes and banning large-scale wedding ceremony events and different household ceremonies.
In Turkmenistan, which has thus far reported no coronavirus circumstances, locals travelling to and from the capital, Ashgabat, mentioned that officers at checkpoints put in across the metropolis knowledgeable them that non-essential journey was banned.
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The Turkmen authorities, which earlier suspended all worldwide flights, has made no official bulletins on the scope and period of the brand new restrictions.
The federal government of Kyrgyzstan, the place the variety of coronavirus circumstances doubled in a single day to 12, mentioned on Saturday it was locking down the provincial districts the place the an infection had been identified.
