\"The epidemiological situation in Almaty has stabilized\" - Sagintayev said

“Akim of Almaty spoke about the current epidemiological situation,” reports zakon.kz.

The daily increase in the number of cases decreased from 1.0% to 0.7%. At the same time, the metropolis remains in the "red" zone.

The number of positive results from tests of the Polymerase Chain Reaction also decreased: 1,561 on August 26 compared to 911 on September 7. The infectivity index falls - from 1.02 to 0.86.

The proportion of "symptomatic" patients is growing - 95.7% as of September 7. This indicates the gradual replacement of the British variant of COVID-19 with the Indian variant.

“Comparative analysis of the age composition of the sick over the past two weeks showed an increase in the proportion of infections among all ages, with the exception of citizens 20 - 39 years old. Most of all, CVI are infected with urban residents 20 - 39 years old (18.6%), 40 - 59 years old (23.8%) and elderly people 60 years and older - 25%. The structure of morbidity in terms of employment, compared with the previous week, has not changed. Over the past seven days, the incidence of CVI still prevails among the self-employed and non-working - 36.6%, pensioners - 23.2%, employees of various limited liability partnership, individual entrepreneurship, JSC - 16.8%, schoolchildren - 9% and preschool children - 6, 4%,” Bakytzhan Sagintayev informed.

As of September 8, 154,763 cases of coronavirus infection were registered in the city, of which 132,796 cases with symptoms and 21,967 - without symptoms, 2,275 cases of unspecified pneumonia. For the day on September 7, 911 cases of coronavirus infection were registered, of which 872 were symptomatic cases. 12 patients have Unidentified pneumonia.

There are 3754 people in infectious diseases hospitals with a total capacity of 7705 beds, 116 of them are children. In an extremely serious condition - 184 patients, 1 534 - in a severe, 2033 - moderate severity. In a mild form, three people suffer from the disease. 58 patients are connected to the Artificial Lung Ventilation apparatus, 137 to the non-invasive Artificial Lung Ventilation, 168 High flow devices are busy.

As for vaccination, on September 8, 4,184 people were vaccinated with the first component, with the second component - 6 455. From February 1 to September 7, the first component of the vaccine, 895 959 people received the first component of the vaccine, the second 773 814.114440 people of the total number of vaccinated - persons over 60 years old.

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