{"id":29553,"date":"2020-07-10T18:46:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29553"},"modified":"2020-07-10T18:46:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:16:22","slug":"china-warns-of-deadlier-than-coronavirus-unknown-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29553","title":{"rendered":"China warns of deadlier than coronavirus &#8216;Unknown Pneumonia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/m.khaleejtimes.com\/coronavirus-pandemic\/china-warns-of-deadlier-than-coronavirus-unknown-pneumonia\">IANS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan has issued a warning of deadly &#8216;unknown pneumonia&#8217; after more than 600 people died of pneumonia in June, a report has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the South China Morning Post, authorities in Kazakhstan &#8212; the central Asian country, have reimposed Covid-19 lockdown in some parts of the country amid a spike in pneumonia cases last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country as a whole saw 1,772 pneumonia deaths in the first part of the year, 628 of which happened in June, including some Chinese nationals, the Chinese embassy said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The death rate of this disease is much higher than the novel coronavirus. The country&#8217;s health departments are conducting comparative research into the pneumonia virus, but have yet to identify the virus,&#8221; the embassy was quoted as saying to the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Chinese embassy described the illness as &#8216;unknown pneumonia&#8217;, Kazakhstani officials and media have only said it is pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The embassy&#8217;s website, citing local media reports, said the provinces of Atyrau and Aktobe and the city of Shymkent have reported significant spikes in pneumonia cases since the middle of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan reminds Chinese nationals here to be aware of the situation and step up a prevention to lower the infection risks,&#8221; the embassy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Some 300 people diagnosed with pneumonia are being hospitalised every day,&#8221; Saule Kisikova, the health care department chief in the capital Nur-Sultan, was quoted as saying to the local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was also not known if the WHO had been informed about the &#8216;unknown pneumonia&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IANS The Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan has issued a warning of deadly &#8216;unknown pneumonia&#8217; after more than 600 people died of pneumonia in June, a report has said. According to the South China Morning Post, authorities in Kazakhstan &#8212; the central Asian country, have reimposed Covid-19 lockdown in some parts of the country amid a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}