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Over the past 24 hours, 773 thousand medical masks have been manufactured in Kazakhstan. This was stated by the Minister of Information and Public Development of the Republic Dauren Abayev during the briefing, Sputnik Kazakhstan reports. According to him, about 70% of this number of masks were made at enterprises of light industry, 30% were produced by pharmacological companies. Read also: Kazakhstan has started to develop a vaccine against coronavirus. According to the news agency, Kazakh scientists have started to develop a vaccine against a new coronavirus, for which they will need one

The number of coronavirus infections in the United States exceeded 104,000. This is reported on Saturday, March 28, by Johns Hopkins University, which monitors the situation with COVID-19 on the basis of official data. According to the University, 104,860 cases of HIV have now been COVID-19 in the country. According to the latest data, 1,711 people died of coronavirus. According to the news agency, earlier in the USA introduced a state of emergency (PE) due to the outbreak of coronavirus. Read also: The number of coronavirus infections in t

Due to the spread of a new type of coronavirus, Hawaii will introduce a mandatory two-week home quarantine. This is reported by Yonhap News with reference to representatives of the Consulate General of South Korea in Honolulu. According to them, quarantine measures will enter into force on March 26 and will apply to both local residents and residents of the island and foreigners. It is known that all quarantine costs will be borne by those arriving in Hawaii. For violation of recommendations there is a fine of up to $5 000 or imprisonment for up to one year. T

The introduction of quarantine in Almaty affected the reduction of crime in the city. This was announced on March 24 by the representative of the police department of the city of Saltanat Azirbek, the publication Nur.kz reports. According to him, on March 23, 45 crimes were registered, of which 36 were solved on hot traces. Azirbek added that crime decreased by 52%, and the number of thefts halved. According to the police, on March 23, 1,600 vehicles entered Almaty and 1,400 left. In addition, 47 people tried to cross the quarantine border. All of them were brought to administrative responsibility. According to the news agency, on March 24, Almaty police officers blocked secondary streets to maintain quarantine regime. 27 posts have been installed along the perimeter of the city.

China has completed clinical studies of the antiviral drug Favipiravir in the field of combating the new coronavirus COVID-19, according to Xinhua news agency. The drug used in flu treatment was approved for clinical use in 2014. It showed good results during clinical trials and no clear side reactions in coronavirus treatment, Zhang Xinmin, director of the China National Biotechnology Development Center at China's Ministry of Science and Technology, said during a press conference in Beijing on March 17. More than 80 patients took part in clinica