MOSCOW - Kazakhstan's health officials on Friday dismissed a Chinese claim that the Central Asian country is facing an outbreak of pneumonia more deadly than the new coronavirus.The Kazakh denial follows a notice issued Thursday by the Chinese embassy's that warned its citizens about an outbreak of pneumonia in the ex-Soviet nation with a death rate higher than that from coronavirus-induced pneumonia.“This information doesn't conform to reality,” Kazakhstan's Health Ministry said in a statement.A file image shows the novel coronavirus under a microscope. (Photo by: Cavallini James/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) It noted that the country's statistics on pneumonia include patients who tested negative for the coronavirus but had.