In recent days, local media in cities like Xian in northwest China have posted online videos of hospitals overflowing with parents and children waiting to be checked by doctors.
Northern China has reported an increase in flu-like illnesses since October, compared to the same period in the previous three years, and this has raised the alarm for the World Health Organization.
Recently, the WHO has asked China for more detailed information about the outbreak of the respiratory disease and about the reported clusters of children with undiagnosed pneumonia.
The WHO has also requested laboratory results from reported outbreaks in children, while recommending that Chinese communities take preventive measures including vaccination, wearing masks, keeping a distance from sick people, staying home when sick and regular hand washing.
Thus, Chinese authorities have attributed the illness to a cooling and lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the circulation of known pathogens including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza, as well as common bacterial infections affecting children, including pneumonia. mycoplasma.
But concern remains high, as once temperatures dropped in Beijing, the capital entered a season of high incidence of infectious respiratory diseases.
" The city is currently showing a trend of coexistence of many pathogens ," said Wang Quanyi, deputy director and chief epidemiologist at the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Meanwhile, an increase in the incidence of respiratory diseases was first revealed during a press conference last week by Chinese officials of the National Health Commission. (A2 Televizion)
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