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Local authorities try to isolate the villages and plead to abstain from public events. However, the residents’ attitude to the emergency varies from fear and panic to complete neglect.
Restrictions on free movement due to the coronavirus’s spread in Central Asia have affected the media sphere. The media are adjusting to the remote work and are facing obstacles in reporting. (more…)
Not everyone managed to receive the assistance from the governments of Central Asian countries in due time. At the moment, many cannot return home, since the borders are closed.
The National Bank of Kyrgyzstan recommended commercial banks and microfinance companies to introduce three-month repayment holidays without fines for Kyrgyz citizens with loans. However, loan recipients and experts consider such measures insufficient to support citizens.
Over the past few years, officials from the each state of the region have repeatedly mentioned the staged implementation of the distance education. The coronavirus emergency provided an opportunity to discover which country was the most prepared, or, to be precise, unprepared.
Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, causing SARS COVID-19 pneumonia, has led to appearance of a lot of fake, that is, deliberately misleading, information. During an all-out panic, it causes significant damage.
The quarantine and economic recession in Russia can become a time bomb for Central Asia, according to experts.
Delimitation and demarcation of borders should remove 30-year tension at the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Despite the officials’ statements, there are problems with availability of certain items and price gouging in each of the countries of the region.
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How Kazakhstanis and Kyrgyzstanis live in a state of emergency due to the spread of coronavirus infection.