NUR-SULTAN / ex ASTANA (Satrapia) — Since the beginning of the school year, more than 10,000 schoolchildren have contracted the coronavirus in Kazakhstan, Deputy Health Minister and Chief State Physician Yerlan Kiyasov said.

Of these 10,000 students, 3,324 are children studying offline.

However, this number does not exceed 0.2% of the total number of students.