"Coronavirus has not been revealed in Almaty," said the city health care department commenting on the message spread in WhatsApp allegedly about the confirmation of a coronavirus in Almaty.
"Coronavirus has not been diagnosed for the hospitalized patient. The city inhabitant who had arrived from Hong-Kong a night before, called an ambulance last night, He had a fever. The patient was taken to the city clinical infection hospital named after Zhekenova with the symptoms of acute respiratory virus infection. The man was diagnosed with the flu, he has passed virus tests. Due to unfavourable epidemiological situation with coronavirus in China the patient is under medical control," said the report.
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