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Kazakhstan, the official name of the Republic of Kazakhstan, is the largest sea-free country, and the ninth-largest country in the world with an area of 2,724,900 square kilometers. Wikipedia
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Source: Global Times Published: 2020/7/9 21:33:40148
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.
Organizations including Kazakhstan’s health department are studying the “virus of this pneumonia”, the embassy said.
There hasn’t been any indication whether this disease is related to the COVID-19.
Some Chinese experts said that measures should be taken to prevent the pneumonia from spreading into China. Kazakhstan borders Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The embassy is reminding Chinese citizens in Kazakhstan to raise their awareness of measures to prevent the spread of the virus.
The embassy quoted local media as saying that since mid-June, almost 500 people have been infected with the pneumonia in three regions of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan’s healthcare minister said on Wednesday that the number of patients sickened by the pneumonia is two to three times more than those who have been infected with COVID-19, Kazakh news agency Kazinform reported.
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