BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) According to the official WeChat news of Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the influenza epidemic in Beijing is still at a high epidemic level and has shown a gradual downward trend.
According to the monitoring data, the positive rate of influenza virus in influenza-like cases in sentinel hospitals in Beijing in the past week was 49.9%, which was nearly 10% lower than the peak of 59.5% in early December 2023. Influenza A virus was dominant in the early part of this epidemic season, and the proportion of influenza B virus increased to 88.5% in the past week, which is the main epidemic strain at present. At present, the epidemic situation of influenza in Beijing is still at a high level, which has shown a gradual downward trend.
At present, the epidemic situation of Covid-19 infection in Beijing is still at a low epidemic level. In the past week, the positive rate of Covid-19 among influenza-like cases in sentinel hospitals was 1.8%, with XBB mutant as the main strain, and the proportion of JN.1 mutant increased gradually, and the epidemic situation in COVID-19 showed a gradual upward trend. It was found that the spread ability of JN.1 mutant was enhanced, but there was no evidence that its pathogenicity was increased.
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