WHO adds Kazakhstan’s pneumonia cases to COVID-19 data

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has combined the PCR-negative pneumonia cases with clinical signs of COVID-19 infection in Kazakhstan into the total coronavirus tally on its website.
Since August 1, Kazakhstan’s Health Ministry has registered the pneumonia cases with coronavirus-like symptoms on a daily basis. But confirmed COVID-19 cases and pneumonia with coronavirus-like symptoms are identified in two categories on the official website coronavirus2020.kz.
According to the website, Kazakhstan has recorded 13,121 pneumonia cases with clinical signs of COVID-19 as of August 9, with 152 pneumonia-related deaths, while the total confirmed COVID-19 cases hit 98,701, with 72,273 recoveries and 1,058 deaths.
According to WHO statistics, Kazakhstan has recorded 109,939 COVID-19 cases, with 1,109 deaths as of August 8.