Kazakhstan's
biggest city running out of hospital beds for COVID-19
patients
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[June 23, 2020]
NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's biggest
city, Almaty, may convert two sports arenas into COVID-19 hospitals as
existing facilities for patients with suspected and confirmed cases are
nearly full, the city's healthcare chief said on Tuesday.
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The Central Asian nation bordering China and Russia is struggling to
contain the spread of the coronavirus after lifting a nationwide
lockdown in mid-May.
One indoor arena on the outskirts of the city of 2 million could
house about 1,000 beds, Kamalzhan Nadyrov told a briefing after
residents started complaining on social networks that hospitals were
refusing to take in patients.
Kazakhstan had reported almost 29,000 COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday,
up from about 5,000 at the end of the lockdown.
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President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the authorities and the people had let
their guard down too early, prompting a resurgence in the virus.
(Reporting by Tamara Vaal,; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov, editing by Ed Osmond)
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