BUSINESS

Central Asia's diverse Covid-19 responses

Asia focus, Djoomart Otorbaev, Published on 22/06/2020

» The impact of Covid-19 on my country, Kyrgyzstan, first hit home for me on March 19, when my son arrived at the international airport in Bishkek from a "highly infected" European country. I was unable to see him because, along with several dozen others who arrived on the flight with him, he was immediately subjected to a 14-day quarantine at a former American military base that the United States donated to the country in 2014.