Employees who have not received the coronavirus vaccine will have their entry to their workplace restricted. Starting today, the employer has the right to keep employees who have not been vaccinated out of the building. The new decree was signed by Yerlan Kiyassov, Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Kazakhstan. This requirement will not apply only to those citizens who have permanent contraindications to vaccination and who had recovered from COVID-19 less than three months ago.
“It is necessary to organize preventive vaccinations with the first dose by August 10, and by September 1, with the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine for employees (except for those with permanent medical contraindications or who had recovered from COVID-19 within the last three months,” the new decree of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Kazakhstan says.
The changes also affected the entry rules to Kazakhstan. Those foreign travellers who arrived in the country without a PCR test certificate will now be sent to a three-day quarantine. While the PCR-positive passengers will have to go into an infectious diseases hospital.
Translation by Assem Zhanmukhanova
Editing by Galiya Khassenkhanova
