I've just checked the websites of the health ministries of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The latter at least has reports as recent as yesterday on the COVID-19 pandemic. Kazakhstan has some documents dated as recently as July 8 that refuse to download. Maybe someone who reads Cyrillic better than I can tell what they're about.
We can certainly hope that this "unknown pneumonia" is a scare and not a whole new virus. But it's common for outbreaks to start and flourish in countries with bad health-ministry websites.
