Kazakhstan Tightens CCP Virus Restrictions, Former President Tests Positive

Kazakhstan Tightens CCP Virus Restrictions, Former President Tests Positive
Kazakh former President Nursultan Nazarbayev attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on March 10, 2020. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/File/Kremlin via Reuters
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ALMATY—Kazakhstan said on Thursday it would tighten CCP virus-related restrictions during the coming weekend and an aide said former President Nursultan Nazarbayev had tested positive for COVID-19.

Shopping malls, markets and parks will be closed in big cities on June 20-21 and additional hospital beds will be made available for COVID-19 patients, the government said, citing a worsening of the outbreak in the Central Asian country.