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Kazakhstan went into lockdown in mid-March over the coronavirus pandemic. It enacted many of the same restrictions we've seen worldwide, and cases of COVID began to trend downward. Recently, the infection rate has begun to trend upward once again.

The country recently had its most reported infections in a single day. Roughly two weeks ago, officials reported nearly 2, new COVID cases in a single day, which is a record for the country. Kazakhstan officials have noted a huge spike in pneumonia in the country, and as we all know, COVID emerged as an unidentified pneumonia in China before it was isolated and named.

However, there's no real evidence that the illness is anything other than a combination of seasonal illness and undiagnosed COVID infections, so it's odd that China would immediately jump to declaring that a new virus was on the loose. Prof Reddy said a combination of these factors - either more deadly, transmissible or immune evading - would be a problem in the near future.

That will be the big problem for the coming year. Variants of Covid are expected to arise in the future, as it is a natural part of the viruses evolution. The document stressed the importance of keeping on stop of booster campaigns - the first of which could start in September.