WHO calls on China to share data on outbreaks of pneumonia in children

On September 13, the State Commission of the People's Republic of CHINA reported an increase in the incidence of respiratory diseases in China. Western and Taiwanese media reported on hospitals in northern China being overcrowded with sick children . WHO has requested additional information

The World HEALTH Organization (WHO) has asked China for additional information about outbreaks of unknown pneumonia in children, REUTERS reports .

The WHO press service recalled that the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China reported an increase in the incidence of respiratory diseases in China on September 13. Then the Chinese authorities explained this by the lifting of anti-Covid restrictions and the circulation of known influenza viruses.

“WHO has sent a formal request to China to provide detailed information on the increase in respiratory diseases and outbreaks of pneumonia in children,” the organization said in a statement.

The Telegraph reported yesterday about outbreaks of undiagnosed pneumonia in children in northern China, citing ProMed (which tracks outbreaks of human and animal diseases around the world). According to the publication, Chinese hospitals are “overloaded with sick children”, and the outbreak has already spread to major cities such as Beijing.

As The Telegraph notes, it was ProMed’s warning at the end of December 2019 that attracted the attention of many doctors and scientists to a previously unknown virus, which would later be called SARS-CoV-2 ( covid-19 ).

Taiwan's FTV News also reports that hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning are overwhelmed with sick children. “They are not coughing and have no symptoms. They just have a high temperature (fever), and many develop nodules in their lungs,” one of the residents of the capital told the publication. Another Beijing resident said that it is now forbidden to come to schools with signs of a cold and everything that happens is a “state secret.”

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