Unknown pneumonia with death rate much higher than covid19 spreading through Kazakhstan

[brainhulk]

Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan urges caution following reports of 'unknown pneumonia' - Global Times

www.globaltimes.cn

The Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan on Thursday warned Chinese citizens living in the country of a local pneumonia of unknown cause, which has a "much higher" fatality rate than COVID-19.

The 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 on its WeChat platform on Thursday.

"The fatality rate of the disease is much higher than COVID-19," read the embassy's statement.

 

[Ichinisan]

Why would the Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan have more info than a Kazakhstan government entity?

[edit]

Take anything from Global Times with a grain of salt. Could be CCP propaganda trying to distract from the pandemic they initially tried to cover up.

 

[brainhulk]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/asia/kazakhstan-pneumonia-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

 

[jman19]

The WHO suspects these are undiagnosed cases of COVID-19 - take that for whatever it's worth.

https://www.livescience.com/kazakhstan-unknown-pneumonia-covid-19.html

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wonder if it's just a different mutation of covid-19.

 

[DigDog]

it's covid19.