Ex-Kazakh President Nazarbayev tests positive for COVID-19

Kazakhstan's influential former president Nursultan Nazarbayev has self-isolated after testing positive for COVID-19, his spokesman Aidos Ukibay wrote on Twitter, Reuters reports. 

"There is no reason for concern," Ukibay wrote, referring to the health of 79-year-old Nazarbayev, who retains sweeping powers as Yelbasy, or national leader, and chair of the oil-rich nation's security council.

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