BISHKEK (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th April, 2020) Kyrgyzstan registered 42 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours and the total tally in the Central Asian country climbed to 419, the COVID-19 response center told Sputnik on Monday.
"On April 13, 2020, 42 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were registered in the republic," a spokesman for the center said, adding that 16 health workers were among the new cases.
Overall, 79 health workers have been infected with the coronavirus in Kyrgyzstan.
The COVID-19 death toll remains five people and it has not increased over the past day.
Eleven coronavirus patients are in critical condition, according to the health authorities.
The country has declared a state of emergency to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
