National Health Commission: In the short term, influenza viruses will still dominate in China, and the proportion of influenza B will increase in the near future

Sina Financial News On January 25, the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases and health tips in China’s winter. Peng Zhibin, director of the Department of Respiratory Infectious Diseases of the Department of Infectious Disease Management of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the monitoring data shows that China’s acute respiratory diseases have declined for two consecutive weeks after reaching a peak in early December 2023, rebounding slightly at the end of December 2023 and continuing to Fluctuation at a high level, and have begun to decline in the past week. At present, influenza is the main acute respiratory disease in China, and other respiratory diseases are at a low level, among which the proportion of influenza B has increased recently, resulting in a small Fluctuation in the influenza epidemic. Experts believe that in winter and spring, China will continue to show a variety of respiratory diseases alternating or co-epidemic, and influenza viruses will continue to dominate in the short term. Influenza activity is now on a downward trend and is expected to return to interepidemic levels by the end of January as schools continue to close.