China Warns Of 'Twindemic' Risk Of Influenza, Imported Covid Cases

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Beijing Warning about the eventuality of”twindemic”this downtime, Chinese health authorities have stressed the need for influenza forestallment as flu exertion in the southern businesses in the country has increased since September In a announcement issued on Friday, the Chinese health commission has asked original officers for strengthening influenza forestallment and control measures during the flu season which is coupled with the threat of imported COVID-19 cases, Global Times reported.

This comes after Chinese authorities have advised about the threat of imported COVID-19 infections due to the high prevalence of respiratory infections in the downtime season A aggregate of 19 imported COVID-19 cases and one locally transmitted infection were reported on Saturday, Xinhua reported. China’s National Health Commission on Sunday said that the recently- added original case was reported in Xilin Gol League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Chinese health authorities stated that influenza exertion in the southern and northern corridor of the country since March has been advanced than the same period last time This comes in the background of the threat of imported cases in China. The Global Times reported that the COVID-19 and respiratory contagious conditions similar as influenza can be combined and bring a implicit”twindemic”during this forthcoming downtime and the coming spring Ahead of the downtime season, the Chinese authorities have called for strengthening monitoring and early warning mechanisms, immunizing crucial groups, promotingmulti-disease forestallment, homogenizing epidemic treatment and expansive hype and rallying.

The publication stated that last flu season clusters of flu cases passed in seminaries, childcare institutions and other venues despite the overall frequence of influenza staying fairly low Also, the health authority prompted the crucial institutions to strengthen sweats to descry, report and deal with cluster cases as early as possible Likewise, the Chinese authorities stressed the need to ameliorate the convenience of influenza vaccination services and enhance procurement and deployment operation of vaccines and information operation of vaccination data.