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AS OF 12:00 NUMBER OF CASES 01.05.2020 LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN ON COVID-19 CONFIRMED 3504 On 27 April by presidential decree the state of

emergency was extended until 11 May 2020 866 RECOVERED with a condition “if no other COVID-19 outbreak will happen”. The Government called to MORTALITY 25 continue keeping sanitary measures, avoid gatherings and festive events despite the start CASE FATALITY RATE 0,7% of Ramadan month. Several restrictions on quarantine regime have been lifted. Sports and outdoor trainings are DISTRIBUTION OF CASES BY REGIONS allowed. From 4 May several business entities will resume their work in all . From 1 May 2020 flights from Nur Sultan and to Kyzylorda, Petropavlovsk, Ust- Nur-Sultan Kamenogorsk and are resumed with enhanced sanitary standards (all passengers should undertake COVID-19 test prior to the flight), fewer passengers and special remote seating plan in the cabin. On 29 April Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Kazakhstan Aizhan Yesmagambetova stated that by the end of May number of COVID-19 infected people might increase up to 5300 people. As reported, COVID-19 is rapidly moving into the category of seasonal diseases, so all Kazakhstanis, business entities must comply with the established sanitary requirements on a regular basis. Kazakhstanis, who lost their income, will be entitled for next payment of KZT 42,500 allowance. To date, 4,25 mln people have received the financial support. Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development jointly with JSC "Kazakhtelecom" developed an interactive map of the accessible transport networks (closed and open routes), which allows to track online accessible routes: https://www.ismet.kz/ru/infotransport COVID-19 PCR based test services available at the National Expertise Center under the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan, the test costs KZT 11500: https://nce.kz/

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EMERGENCY HEALTH RESPONSE SAVE THE DATE SOLIDARITY trial has been approved by Central ONLINE TRAINING Ethical Commission of the Ministry of Health and FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS now the final preparatory steps for the enrollment to the multicenter international 6 MAY 2020, 11:45-13:30 (VIA ZOOM) clinical trial are being completed; MEETING ID - 954 6507 2719 Organising weekly online webinars on infection PASSWORD - 285164 prevention control, use of PPEs, sero- epidemiological investigation for COVID-19. More KEY CONSIDERATIONS TO MANAGE than 250 healthcare workers attended the COVID-19 TRANSITION (FULL WHO REPORT) previous seminars; Conducted senior briefings for the ministries of Public health and health in Central Asia, diplomatic corps in epidemiological Kazakhstan on key issues related to the COVID-19 considerations response; Health System Response Monitoring (HSRM) was approved by the Ministry of Health and a Governance working group was established; Population Data analytics Social and Supporting research among pharmacists of Nur- behavioural Digital solutions economic insights Communications implications Sultan on over the counter sale of antibiotics, and a related protocol is being finalized and cleared by the Local Ethical Committee; WHO developed report on the assessment of Capacity for dual sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, track health system children and adolescent health services in terms management of Universal Health Coverage; UNICEF supported development of the HIGHLIGHTS algorithm on perinatal care in the COVID-19 WHO has provided: context and the national protocol on treatment 11,734 hygiene kits, and 2,500 distributed in of COVID-19 in children; Almaty Supported the Emergency Operation Center 125,250 essential Personal Protective Equipment with procurement of equipment in order to (PPE) items to be shipped to Kazakhstan ensure 24/7 operation. COVID-19 tests to the National Reference Laboratory

SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT AND RESPONSE

UN Framework for socio-economic response to COVID-19 Community-based child protection programme for children adopted; affected by migration organized in Almaty and ; Design of the Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of COVID-19 Guidelines for school psychologists were developed to equip completed to collect data from 12,000 respondents; them with tools for provision of remote psychological UNDP and local NGO Kameda partnered to test 3-month Youth support to parents, children and teachers; Apprenticeship Scheme for 150 vulnerable young women and Over 24,000 people visited the https://covid- men affected by the crisis; 19.mentalcenter.kz; Assessment of barriers for effective telecommuting in public 129 online sessions and online capacity building webinars sector commenced in partnership with the Agency of for 72 mental health specialists provided; Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs and the Astana Civil Service 450 migrants received humanitarian and legal assistance in Hub; , , Turkestan, , Kyzylorda regions UNICEF, UNESCO with the Ministry of Education prepared the and the cities of Shymkent and Almaty; schedule of online sessions, content and coached trainers for Procurement of medical protection to the border service online webinars aimed to reach about 2,500 small rural multi- and antiseptic products to the Republican Scientific and graded schools and pre-schools with COVID-19 response and Practical Centre of Mental Health by UNODC; prevention messages, key sanitary requirements, advice to UNODC finished procurement of 4 sets of video-conference parents and students; equipment (USD 170,000 USD) for telecommuting purposes Over 450 education specialists, psychologists and school during COVID-19 outbreak ( and Karaganda, management from rural schools from Akmolinskaya and Kostanay). Almatinskaya provinces joined the first webinar on COVID-19 prevention in education facilities; N2 (ISSUED BIWEEKLY) 1 MAY 2020

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UN RISK COMMUNICATION AND USEFUL INFO MATERIALS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT UN "Women Rise For All" initiative; Press releases on COVID-19 impact on children, Campaign on fighting stigma and vulnerable groups of society, fighting misinformation discrimination during COVID-19 with prepared and widely distributed; influencers Aruzhan Sain and Kaliya; Conducted information online briefing for diplomatic Campaign#QuarantineWithoutViolenc corps in Kazakhstan on recent developments in e, involving fathers from Kazakhstan COVID-19 response by the UN system; helping families during quarantine; Promo videos on #StayHome and Campaigns on promoting #Quarantine Without COVID-19 prevention, prepared jointly Violence and fighting stigma, discrimination, hate with the Ministry of Health; speech prepared and promoted; Interviews on COVID-19 impact on 12 influencers supported #LearningAtHome challenge children, socio-economic situation, from the beginning of the campaign, with a total reach cash assistance for vulnerable people; 700K parents and caregivers through Facebook and “Ask WHO Kazakhstan” video; Instagram; Leaflet with key information on 992 UNICEF volunteers in Kazakhstan supported online minimizing infection risks during information campaign on COVID-19 prevention which Ramadan; reached 250K young people and 120K engaged by Web story about people with with messages on COVID-19 prevention and tips on disabilities facing violence; combating misinformation; National hotline 116 16, operated by Information leaflets on minimizing risks of COVID-19 IOM partner NGO on advising to the infection during Ramadan, useful information on victims of trafficking and vulnerable gender-based violence during lockdown regime, guide migrants. for healthcare workers prepared and distributed; Distribution of guidelines for law enforcement agencies, prisons to tackle COVID-19 crisis; Presenting situation analysis and the measures taken to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis on Chatham House platform engaging more than 130 experts from NGOs, academia, the policy sector, think tanks, the corporate sector and journalists from Europe and CIS; Organizing online seminars on COVID-19 prevention measures, Online Nelson Mandela Courses; COVID-19 storybook for children adapted UNDP launched a special COVID webpage in KZ, RU to . The book was and ENG; downloaded by 475 users and published Wide coverage of the activities in local TV, printed, on online media with 50K reach. online media outlets – more than 40 articles published, 5 interviews. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT

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