At the initiative of the postal administrations of China, canceled mail exchange road, air and rail links between China and Kazakhstan, said in message the national postal operator "Kazpost".
due to the cancellation of postal exchange, Kazpost has suspended accepting all types of mail to China, as well as country, email that arrives in transit through China (Bangladesh, Brunei, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Laos, North Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Taiwan).
in addition, Kazakhstan has imposed a ban on the export of protective masks after their sales in China has grown amid the outbreak of a new coronavirus, which has led to higher prices and shortages.
"We would like to acknowledge the unethical behavior of manufacturers and distributors of masks. They sold stocks in China. In this connection, the government introduced a ban on the export", - said to journalists on Thursday the representative of the Ministry of health Dias Omatsuri.
the world health organization (who) said that while getting letters and packages from China to be infected with the novel coronavirus impossible. This is stated in the message of the who on Twitter. According to recent studies, coronaviruses do not live long outside the body, so no risk of infection, said the organization.
According to the Ministry of health, today in Kazakhstan the number of arrivals into the country from China hospitalized 110 persons with fever and symptoms of SARS, of which 105 patients evaluated for novel coronavirus infection. All the results are negative.