Covid pneumonia is a new and completely unknown disease. Its nature, behavior, weaknesses and strengths cannot be learned from biology textbooks, we are collecting this data as we speak. Unfortunately, the price for this new knowledge is the lives of our compatriots and hundreds of thousands of people around the world. However, without losses, we will not learn the lessons that we need to defend the world in this war. So let's look back and remember how COVID-19 pneumonia developed in Kazakhstan.