Kyrgyzstan

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Total publications count

25

Publication types

Vaccination passports
Access to official information limitations
Legal prosecution
Surveillance using governmental apps
Violation of freedom of speech
Other

Country profile

From March 22, 2020, an emergency regime was introduced in the country, and from April 15 to May 10 - a stricter state of emergency. Since April 13, 2020, a monitoring system for citizens in quarantine has been launched - "Stop COVID-19 KG." A curfew was imposed and at that time it was necessary to get a digital pass for moving in your car. 

An application for surveillance of COVID-19 patients was also launched.

Back in April 2020, citizens began to be detained for disseminating false information about coronavirus. In June 2020, the law "On Information Manipulation" was introduced into parliament, according to which the authorities could suspend the work of any web portal and restrict access to information that showed signs of false or inaccurate, a year later it was adopted. 

On June 28, 2021, the Ministry of Health launched an online service for issuing certificates of vaccination against coronavirus. To receive a certificate of citizens, you must leave an application on the state portal portal.tunduk.kg. Such a certificate can be printed or saved on your smartphone. The document contains information about the vaccinated as well as a QR code for validating the data. 

On October 11, 669 thousand people underwent full vaccination.