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Kazakhstan’s daily COVID-19 case tally surpasses 4,000 for the first time

14 July 2021 14:39 (UTC +04:00)

Kazakhstan’s doctors recorded 4,375 new COVID-19 cases over the past day, 682 more than a day earlier, setting a record high in the country since the start of the pandemic, APA reports citing TASS.

The total caseload has hit 466,792, according to the government’s inter-agency commission for preventing the COVID-19 spread.

The share of the infected citizens in Kazakhstan (home to 18.9 mln people) has reached 2.4%, while the transmission rate over the past 24 hours amounted to 0.02%.

According to the commission, as many as 418,228 people have recovered and over the past 24 hours 2,960 recoveries were registered. The death toll has hit 4,769, climbing by 53.