Wang made the comment to reporters at the headquarters of the United Nations in NYwhere he presides over a session of the UN Security Council about the war between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
The World Health Organization (WHO) last week asked China to “provide detailed information about an increase in respiratory illnesses and pneumonia outbreaks reported in children.”
However, from China they pointed out that no “unusual or new” pathogens detected related to a rebound in respiratory diseases in the north of the country, stated the WHO. In any case, the organization assured that since October they have monitoring the situation and reported a increase in respiratory diseases in the north of the country.
China entered a “season of high incidence of infectious respiratory diseases”
The National Health Commission reported last week to the press that the rebound in respiratory diseases was due to the lifting of the anticovid restrictions and the circulation of others known pathogens. Added to this is that the Chinese capital is going through a cold wave, with temperatures expected to be well below the 0 ºC on Friday.
Beijing “entered the season of high incidence of infectious respiratory diseases“said the vice director and epidemiological expert of the Beijing disease prevention center, Wang Quanyi, to state media and assured that the city “currently shows a trend of multiple pathogens coexisting,” he said.
From the WHO point out that “some of these increases occurred earlier in the season than had been experienced historically, but were not unexpected given the lifting of COVID-19 restrictionsas was experienced in a similar way in other countries.”
Source: Ambito
