Eurasianet

Trials for a domestically developed QazCovid-in vaccine are not expected to be completed until March.

The government will help outlets that publish its propaganda.

Numbers of coronavirus cases has seen a sharp surge recently.

The healthcare sector has been embroiled in corruption scandals for years.

The die-off has caused a shortage of meat and eggs in markets.

Parents are pleading for relief from their kids learning from home, however.

Confusion and contradiction are at the heart of the government’s counter-disinformation strategy.

Officials concede their exhortations to maintain social distance have had little impact.

The lockdown regime was rolled over until mid-August.

Sightseers were pillaging the lake for mementoes.

Families of the dead blame corruption for undermining the healthcare service, and the government for failing to prepare in earlier stages of the pandemic.

Doctors in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are growing angry at what they see as little more than a face-saving, statistical trick.

The president has extended a second lockdown in recognition of the scale of the crisis.

The number of overall confirmed cases has risen to 42,500.

Infections have increased sevenfold since lockdowns were eased.