242 cases of pneumonia, COVID-19 registered in Kyrgyzstan, 173,428 in total

09:56, 20 августа 2021, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Tatyana KUDRYAVTSEVA

At least 242 new cases of community-acquired pneumonia and COVID-19 have been registered in the Kyrgyz Republic. The Ministry of Health and Social Development reports.

According to it, 81 people got infected in Bishkek, 8 — in Osh city, 71 — in Chui region, 12 — in Osh region, 11 — in Talas region, 11 — in Naryn region, 24 — Issyk-Kul region, 9 — in Jalal-Abad region, 15 — in Batken region.

In total, 173,428 cases of community-acquired pneumonia and COVID-19 have been registered in the country since March 2020.

The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan has combined statistics after the WHO assigned the code U07.1 to the laboratory-confirmed coronavirus in the international classification of diseases, and the code U07.2 — to community-acquired pneumonia, and it is considered as manifestation of the virus.