Kazakhstan quarantines five more cities

Kazakhstan will quarantine five more cities in Karaganda Region from March 30, Report informs citing RIA Novosti.

So, besides Nur-Sultan and Almaty, the cities under quarantine will include Karaganda, Temirtau, Saran, Shakhtinsk, and Abay.

According to the recent information, 251 coronavirus cases were recorded in Kazakhstan, one died.

The country declared a state of emergency on March 16.

On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities announced an outbreak of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan. The causative agent of the disease is a new type of coronavirus, which has the official name COVID-2019.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic of a new type of coronavirus in the world.