China makes a statement on respiratory diseases among children

Health authorities in China said they are currently witnessing a “fluctuating downward trend” in respiratory diseases among children.
Media outlets quoted Mei Feng, spokesman for the National Health Commission, as saying, in a press conference held in the capital, Beijing, on Sunday, that the number of disease cases in major medical facilities across the country has recently decreased.
Last month, China informed the World Health Organization of an increase in children visiting hospitals due to respiratory diseases. This raised fears that the reason might be the emergence of a new virus.
But the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Children’s Hospital in Beijing informed the United Nations organization that the increase in patient visits to outpatient clinics and hospitalizations is due to known pathogens such as the spread of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, respiratory syncytial virus, adenovirus, and influenza. Seasonality.