"Measles epidemiological situation aggravated in November 2018 and this process is still underway. About 600 people caught measles in 2018, in 2019 the incidence increased by 20 times to about 13 000 people," she said.
In her words, the average republican indexes increased in the Mangistau and Turkestan regions, in Almaty, Nur-Sultan and Shymkent.
"The main cause of incidence growth is formation of non-vaccinated layer of the population. I.e. people who did not get the vaccination for different reasons, maybe for medical reasons, or refusal from vaccination. The incidence concerns all the age groups, a person without immunization can catch measles," she said.
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