Beijing CDC: The epidemic situation of influenza is still at a high level, and the main epidemic strain is influenza B.

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Beijing CDC: The epidemic situation of influenza is still at a high level, and the main epidemic strain is influenza B.

  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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