ALMATY / BISHKEK – Kyrgyzstan added on Friday thousands of cases and a lot of deaths to its COVID-19 count, describing them as maximum cases of pneumonia likely caused by the new coronavirus that had been detected through tests.
Neighboring Kazakhstan, which has also reported an increase in pneumonia cases, said it would do the same from next month, which would also lead to a unique increase in the number of pneumonia.
The two Central Asian countries are suffering to stop the virus after ending their initial closures in May, and this month Kazakhstan imposed a momentary closure after hospitals were filled in several major cities.
Kyrgyzstan reported a total of 23,783 cases of COVID-19 and COVID pneumonia on Friday, after reporting 12,498 cases of COVID-19. The number of deaths, with the same adjustments, rose from 167 to 785.
Kazakhstan’s Health Minister Alexei Tsoy said in a briefing on Friday that The Nur-Sultan government would begin publishing combined figures from 1 August.
The number of deaths from pneumonia has increased by 75% so far from year to year in 2019, he said, achieving 3327. Kazakhstan reported 66,895 cases of COVID-19 on Friday, with 464 deaths. (Reporting through Olzhas Auyezov in Almaty and Olga Dzyubenko in Bishkek; edited by Catherine Evans)
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