GENEVA – Mike Ryan, head of the World Health Organization’s emergency program, said Friday that an outbreak of pneumonia in Kazakhstan, considered incredibly deadly, “is certainly on our radar.”
But he also said it was imaginable to be COVID-19.
“COVID-19’s upward trajectory in the country would in fact make many of these instances undiagnosed coVID-19 instances,” he said in an online briefing from Geneva. (Reporting through Stephanie Nebehay and Michael Shields in Geneva; written through Kevin Liffey; edited through Edmund Blair)
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