The National Health Commission held a press conference today to introduce the relevant situation of respiratory disease prevention and control.
Wang Liping, a researcher at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that it is the current season for respiratory infectious diseases to occur, and various pathogens may cause respiratory infectious diseases. Monitoring shows that influenza is the main disease that causes patients with acute respiratory infections in medical institutions to visit.
Monitoring data shows that influenza has been in a seasonal epidemic recently, and the epidemic intensity in most provinces is at a moderate level. At present, the upward trend of influenza positivity rate has slowed down. As primary and secondary schools in various places have successively started holidays, it is expected that the level of influenza activity may decline in mid-to-late this month.
Human metapneumovirus is not a new virus. It has been with humans for at least decades. Due to the development of detection methods, more and more related reports have been reported in recent years. At present, the positive rate of human metapneumovirus testing is in a platform fluctuation, with the positive rate in northern provinces declining, and the positive rate among cases aged 14 and below begins to decline. The positive rate of respiratory syncytial virus fluctuates and increases in the age group of 0-4 years. The positive rates of rhinovirus, Mycoplasma pneumoniae and adenovirus tests are showing a downward trend. Other respiratory pathogens such as the novel coronavirus are at a low prevalence level. Overall, this winter and spring will still show an alternating or superimposed epidemic trend, but they are all known pathogens and no new infectious diseases have appeared. The overall epidemic intensity and medical pressure will not be higher than last year.
