Amid fight to eradicate the existing Corona Virus currently ravaging mankind, the Chinese embassy has warned about a fatal ‘unknown pneumonia’ that is deadlier than Coronavirus which reportedly broken out in Kazakhstan.
The Chinese Embassy in the country warned that “the death rate of this disease is much higher than the novel coronavirus”
The country’s health departments are conducting comparative research into the pneumonia virus, but have yet to identify the virus.
“Unknown pneumonia in Kazakhstan caused 1,772 deaths in the first six months of the year, including 628 people in June alone, including Chinese citizens, the embassy said in a statement.
“The fatality rate of the disease is much higher than COVID-19,” read the embassy’s statement.
“Health officials have recorded more than 32,000 cases of pneumonia between June 29 and July 5 alone, along with 451 deaths,” said Kazakhstan’s Health Ministry.
As per the SCMP, it is not clear why the embassy described the illness as unknown or what information it had.
The embassy website, citing local reports, said Atyrau and Aktobe provinces and Shymkent city reported significant spikes in pneumonia cases since the middle of June.
Kazakhstani officials and media have only said it is pneumonia, as per the SCMP.
About 300 people diagnosed with pneumonia are being hospitalized every day,’ Saule Kisikova, the health care department chief in Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan, told state news agency Kazinform.
