Weather conditions are favorable for adenovirus outbreaks, increasing the number of patients in Hanoi.
Since the beginning of this year, Hanoi has registered 2,770 positive adenovirus cases, according to data from the National Children’s Hospital. Of these, 830 were confirmed last week.
Patients are spread across all 30 districts and regions. Some regions have experienced high rates of infection, such as Hadong (226), Hoang Mai (224), Namturiam (223), Dongda (208) and Long Bien (206).
The Hanoi Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the weather in Hanoi is entering the autumn-winter transition period. It is now a favorable condition for the spread and growth of adenovirus.
Officials predict that the number of adenovirus infections will continue to rise in the near future.
Last week, the Hanoi CDC also conducted training on adenovirus infection monitoring and prevention at the Thanh Xuan District Health Center.
The Hanoi CDC recently trained on monkeypox, another worrying infectious disease, and said Vietnam has only had one case in Ho Chi Minh City so far.
According to the Ministry of Health, this was a case of foreign monkeypox and close contact with patients in Vietnam was monitored and monitored according to regulations and no suspected infection was detected.
No cases of the disease have yet been registered in Hanoi. However, the health sector and the community have yet to continue to strengthen surveillance of suspected cases by case definition.
The Hanoi CDC, on the other hand, is still calling for a stricter medical quarantine at Noi Bai border gate and international airport, including temperature checks, supervision by medical quarantine officers, or receiving information. by the people. In particular, we are actively testing flights from countries where there is a monkeypox outbreak. This is to identify suspicious patients early, apply appropriate quarantine measures from the outset and prevent the influx of infectious diseases.
Foot-and-mouth disease registered another 30 cases in the past week, a decrease of 7 cases compared to the previous week. A total of 1520 cases in 2022, an increase of 7.4 times compared to the same period in 2021.
Other diseases, such as measles, whooping cough and meningococcal disease, have had no new cases in the last week in Hanoi. Compared to the same period of the previous year, the number of cases of gastric diseases decreased or showed a corresponding trend.
