Kazakhstan combines coronavirus and pneumonia statistics

AKIPRESS.COM - The Ministry of Health in Kazakhstan will combine coronavirus and pneumonia statistics since August 1, Health Minister Aleksey Tsoy said.
"The Ministry of Health will introduce new regulations for statistics to ensure data transparency. We'll transit to COVID-19 statistics with new codes recommended by WHO Regional Office for Europe. We will consolidate coronavirus cases and pneumonia cases with negative polymerase chain reaction test results but with COVID-19 symptoms," he said.
More than 66,800 patients with COVID-19 registered in Kazakhstan, 375 of them died.