COVID-19: Kyrgyzstan’s tally close to 300

Ten more people were diagnosed with coronavirus in Kyrgyzstan, taking the count to 280 as of April 9.

Thirty-four of the infected people are doctors. The country’s death toll is four so far.

On March 22, Kyrgyzstan declared a state of emergency.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged in late 2019 in China’s Hubei province, and the virus has spread to 209 countries and territories since then.

To date, COVID-19 cases surpassed 1,500,000 globally, resulting in more than 330,000 recoveries and over 88,000 deaths.

On February 11, the WHO officially named the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as COVID-19, and on March 11, declared it a pandemic.