Sino-Singapore Health｜China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The overall COVID-19 epidemic nationwide is at a relatively low level

　　China News Service, January 25 (Xinhua) The National Health Commission held a press conference on the 25th to introduce the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases in winter and health tips.

Peng Zhibin, director of the Respiratory Infectious Diseases Department of the Division of Infectious Disease Management of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced at the meeting that the overall level of the new coronavirus epidemic in the country is still at a relatively low level recently. From the case reports and monitoring data such as the positive rate of testing in our sentinel hospitals, it is There are signs of an increase, but the increase is relatively small.

The proportion of local JN.1 mutant strains continues to rise, and the clinical manifestations are basically asymptomatic and mild. There is no significant change in the severity of the disease caused by our current EJ.5 mutant strain.

　　Peng Zhibin said that it is expected that around the Spring Festival holiday, affected by various factors such as large-scale movement of people, visits to relatives and friends, and an increase in dinner parties, the COVID-19 epidemic may rebound to a certain extent.

　　She introduced that monitoring data showed that after reaching the peak of respiratory diseases in my country in early December 2023, it declined for two consecutive weeks. There was a slight rebound at the end of December, continued to fluctuate at a high level, and began to fall in the past week.

At present, our acute respiratory diseases are still dominated by influenza, and other respiratory diseases are at a relatively low level.

Among them, the proportion of influenza B has increased recently, resulting in slight fluctuations in the influenza epidemic.

Experts believe that in winter and spring, our country will continue to show a trend of alternate epidemics or co- epidemics of various respiratory diseases, and influenza viruses will still dominate in the short term.

Currently, influenza activity has shown a downward trend.

As schools resume their holidays, it is expected to return to inter-epidemic levels around the end of January.