China Reports New Unknown Disease Worse Than COVID Spreading In Asia
FATAL “UNKNOWN” PNEUMONIA – China reports a new and unknown disease that has a higher death rate than the new coronavirus, COVID-19.
As the world continued to struggle against the pandemic, Chinese officials have warned of another potentially catastrophic disease. However, the new disease also caused sever pneumonia, much like the new coronavirus.
According to an article from Express UK, the Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan reported 1,722 deaths in the first leg of the year. Moreover, some of these deaths were Chinese nationals.
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In addition, the authorities described the new disease as “unknown pneumonia”. Furthermore, the Embassy warned Chinese citizens within Kazakhstan that the death rate is much higher compared to COVID-19.
The country’s health departments are conducting comparative research into the pneumonia virus, but have yet to identify the virus.
As per the article, Saul Kisikova, health care department chief in Kazakhstan’s capital stated that around 300 people are hospitalized every day who are diagnosed with “pneumonia”. Meanwhile, Ayzhan Esmagambetova, chief sanitary officer, said the death rate from pneumonia spiked four times.
But, even with pneumonia as a symptom, those who had fallen ill from the unknown disease did not test positive for COVID-19.
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