Chinese officials have warned of a deadly "unknown pneumonia" with a higher mortality rate than the coronavirus "Covid-19" in parts of Asia, as regions in Kazakhstan have witnessed significant increases in cases of this disease since mid-June.
The Kazakh Ministry of Health said that it recorded more than 32 thousand cases of this type of pneumonia, which was not known before between June 29 and July 5 with 451 deaths.
The Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan said that the country saw 1,777 deaths in the first half of the year, some of them Chinese.
In a warning to Chinese citizens residing in Kazakhstan, embassy officials said: “The death rate from this disease is much higher than the emerging Corona virus.
The country's health departments are conducting extensive research on this deadly virus but have not yet identified it, and the embassy has urged Chinese citizens to protect themselves in the same way they did with the coronavirus.
"About 300 people with pneumonia are hospitalized every day," Saul Kisikova, head of the health care department in the capital of Kazakhstan, told the state news agency Kazinform.
The director of public health in Kazakhstan, Aegan Ismagpetpetova, said that the death rate from unknown pneumonia increased four times in June in the country, after the figures were compared with the same period last year.
She said that many people who contracted the disease did not prove during their diagnosis that they had Covid-19.
And last Sunday, Kazakhstan's President Qasim Gomart Tokayev imposed a second round of restrictions after escalating cases of Covid-19 in Kazakhstan.
President Tokayev said that the nation “is in fact facing the second wave of coronaviruses associated with a large increase in cases of pneumonia.”
Allegedly, the coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China, and infected more than 12 million people worldwide.
Most countries have had to close themselves down and have forced their citizens to wear masks, practice social exclusion and often wash their hands well.