Coronavirus exists among animals in Kyrgyzstan: Inspectorate

AKIPRESS.COM - Coronavirus exists among animals in Kyrgyzstan, said the Director of Veterinary and Phytosanitary Safety Inspectorate Kalysbek Jumakanov at the parliament meeting on Feb 17. The deputy chairman of parliament committee for agrarian policy Almazbek Akmatov asked Jumakanov to brief on ongoing measures to prevent coronavirus in Kyrgyzstan.
According to Jumakanov, this virus exists among poultry that were infected with infectious bronchitis.
"There are over 50 types of coronavirus, the poultry, dogs and cats have this virus. The noval virus from China is mutating and spreading among people, fortunately there are no cases of coronavirus infection among people in Kyrgyzstan," he said.
The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China reached at least 1,868 as of the end of Monday, with additional 93 deaths from Hubei and five more in other parts of the country, according to the country's health commission on Tuesday.
The government also reported an additional 1,886 new infections across the country, but mostly from Hubei, bringing the nationwide total to at least 72,436.
Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Chinese medical data showed that more than 80 percent of patients have mild symptoms and will recover, while 14 percent suffer from severe complications such as pneumonia, 5 percent are in critical condition and 2 percent die from the disease.
"It appears that COVID-19 is not as deadly as other coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS," the WHO's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva, adding that officials were starting to get a clearer picture of the outbreak.