{"id":54129,"date":"2020-07-12T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54129"},"modified":"2020-07-12T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:30:14","slug":"as-coronavirus-surges-in-hong-kong-mysterious-pneumonia-hits-kazakhstan-is-this-a-new-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54129","title":{"rendered":"As coronavirus surges in Hong Kong, mysterious pneumonia hits Kazakhstan \u2013 is this a new pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As coronavirus surges in Hong Kong, mysterious pneumonia hits Kazakhstan \u2013 is this a new pandemic?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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(Natural News<\/a>) Even as one of Asia\u2019s major financial hubs braces for a resurgence of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, a potential new threat looms as a deadly new pneumonia has broken out in the center of the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Hong Kong, authorities have closed schools and tightened social distancing requirements after a new surge of coronavirus cases struck the territory<\/a>. According to education secretary Kevin Yeung, the decision was taken due to \u201cthe exponential growth of confirmed COVID-19 local cases over the past two days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Hong Kong is grappling with its new surge, Chinese officials have also warned that a new, \u201cunknown pneumonia,\u201d has broken out in Kazakhstan<\/a> \u2013 one that apparently has a higher death rate than COVID-19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hong Kong experiences its largest outbreak yet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hong Kong\u2019s latest outbreak of 147 new COVID-19 cases is small compared to outbreaks in the U.S. or Europe. For a territory that has largely kept its infection rate low, however, it represents one of the largest spikes since the pandemic began. (Related: Air travelers hiding coronavirus infections to get into Hong Kong highlight reopening risks<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, Hong Kong\u2019s Education Bureau<\/em> has ordered the closure of secondary and primary schools as well as kindergartens, starting on Monday. Meanwhile, the Food and Health Bureau<\/em> announced new social distancing measures for bars and restaurants. The new measures included limiting customers per table to eight and four, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs society needs to resume some economic and social activities to a limited extent, it is inevitable that new local cases will appear,\u201d Sophia Chan, secretary for food and health, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As coronavirus surges in Hong Kong, mysterious pneumonia hits Kazakhstan \u2013 is this a new pandemic? (Natural News) Even as one of Asia\u2019s major financial hubs braces for a resurgence of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, a potential new threat looms as a deadly new pneumonia has broken out in the center of the continent. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28817,29011,3262,1697,30013,403,29434,1985,8407,25804,607,28896,22851,856],"class_list":["post-54129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-disease","tag-flu","tag-franz-walker","tag-hong-kong","tag-infections","tag-kazakhstan","tag-natural-news","tag-outbreak","tag-pandemic","tag-pneumonia","tag-superbugs","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54130,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54129\/revisions\/54130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}