AKIPRESS.COM - Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Berdibek Saparbayev held a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission on Preventing the Emergence and Spread of Coronavirus in Kazakhstan on January 27, the press service of the Prime Minister said.

According to him, more than 2,700 cases of coronavirus were reported, 80 people died in China. Fifty cases of infection have already been registered in the world.

In accordance with the instruction of the President, the government took protective measures, he said.

The meeting addressed issues of strengthening sanitary and epidemiological control at the border, establishing surveillance at the place of residence for all those who are from the PRC, ensuring the readiness of medical organizations and workers, suspending the 72-hour visa-free stay in the Republic of Kazakhstan for transit passengers from China, and others.

The issues of evacuation of citizens of Kazakhstan located in the city of Wuhan were also discussed.

According to First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shahrat Nuryshev, there are currently 98 Kazakh students in Wuhan.

Diplomats keep in touch with them and work out issues of their evacuation with the Chinese Foreign Ministry, he noted.

The Embassy of Kazakhstan in China has opened a hot line, organized round-the-clock duty.

At the same time, the Chinese side has not yet allowed any state to export its citizens, Nuryshev said.

Minister of Health Yelzhan Birtanov said that the sanitary-epidemiological services have been working in an intensive mode in Kazakhstan.