The Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan launches a new alarm: there would be an unknown pneumonia and not linked to positive swabs for Sars-Cov-2. But the Ministry of Health denies that it is an unknown infection and WHO also believes that in many cases it could be undiagnosed Covid-19
Photo taken in Kazakhstan, March 19, 2020 in Almaty (photo: Ruslan Pryanikov / Afp via Getty Images) The Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan, a country of Central Asia and the former Soviet republic, has issued a new alert in recent days: there would be a new "unknown" pneumonia, which does not correspond to positive swabs for SARS-CoV-2. But Kazakhstan's authorities quickly denied that it was an unknown pneumonia, and in a statement on Friday July 3, the health minister spoke of "viral pneumonia of unspecified etiology", as reported by CNN. The World Health Organization (WHO), always involved in circumstances of this kind, stated in the conference on Friday 10 July that the situation is "certainly under our consideration" and that probably "many of these pneumonia are actually cases of undiagnosed Covid-19 ".
The alarm of the chinese embassy in the republic of Kazakhstan
Thursday, July 2, the chinese embassy in Kazakhstan reports that a pneumonia is not known, has killed more than 1,700 people , referring, further, that the department of Health of Kazakhstan and other agencies are conducting comparative research and have not defined the nature of the virus responsible for pneumonia” . According to the chinese authorities the pneumonia, which would not be due to the Sars-Cov-2, killed all 1.772 people from the
beginning of the year , with an increase in cases starting in June. The increase was concentrated in the cities of Atyrau , Aqtöbe and Shymkent , all the capitals of the respective regions. In particular, always according to the statements of China, in June, there were 628 deaths . In addition, the fatality rate of this pneumonia would be
higher than that caused by the new coronavirus , according to the chinese embassy.
But the ministry denies that they are “pneumonia unknown”
But the ministry of Health of Kazakhstan has promptly whether it is a pneumonia that is new or unknown, and states that “the information spread by some chinese media do not correspond to reality” . The health minister Aleksey Tsoy has reported that there are cases of pneumonia of bacterial origin, fungal and viral, including some of the etiology is not specified – that does not mean that it is a virus is new or unknown. The cases of pneumonia reported by the minister were 32.724 in June 2020, an amount about four times faster than those in the month of June 2019, which were nearly 8 thousand.
The confusion with Covid-19 is that possible?
of course, you have to consider that this year there are also the pneumonia Covid-19 , which, according to the official data of the world health organization and Johns Hopkins University are almost 55thousand on the date of 11 July. In general we do not know, as he tells the South China Morning Post, how many of these pneumonias negative swab for Sars-Cov-2, however, might just be infections Covid-19. The ministry, in fact, has stated that in line with the Who recommendations, were classified as pneumonia have all of those clinical manifestations of patients with swab negative but with symptoms similar to those of Covid-19. And even the Who suggests that many of these cases may be in reality, infections due to Sars-Cov-2, and are not correctly recognized.
The alert remains high
The alert remains, even the emergency coronavirus. Kazakhstan has declared a state of emergency on 16 march 2020, giving way then to a lockdown, loose, on may 11th . However, in recent times with the increase of cases of pneumonia, the lockdown has been restored in some areas again affected. And l’8 July, the chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has said, as reported by the news agency Russian Tass that the situation of the spread of coronavirus inside the country is still serious , as in many other states, and is soon to loosen these measures.
