The World Health Organization has asked China for information on a rise in respiratory illness among children, in a sign of the heightened vigilance over outbreaks of infectious disease since the Covid-19 pandemic.
The global health body made the request after reports of “undiagnosed pneumonia” in northern China from ProMed, the outbreak surveillance network that first alerted the world to Covid.
China’s National Health Commission said on Thursday it was “paying close attention” to the overcrowding in children’s hospitals and recommended that patients with milder symptoms go to general hospitals and clinics instead.
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