On April 22, the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention released the latest situation of the novel coronavirus infection in the country. Compared with the data released by China Disease Control and Prevention on April 15, from April 14 to April 20, 12 newly detected local mutant strains of major concern were detected.
Since December 9, 2022, the positive number and positive rate of COVID-19 nucleic acid testing in all provinces showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing. The positive number peaked on December 22 (6.94 million), then fluctuated and dropped to 2,661 on April 20, 2023. The positive rate peaked on December 25, 2022 (29.2%) and fluctuated down to 1.7% on April 20, 2023.
From September to early December 2022, the weekly number of influenza-like cases (body temperature ≥38℃, accompanied by cough or sore throat) in influenza sentinel hospitals across the country remained stable at around 100,000, and the ratio of influenza-like cases to outpatient (emergency) patients fluctuated between 2.7% and 3.6%. In 2023, the proportion of influenza-like cases began to increase (1.8%) in the 7th week (February 13-19), peaked (9.1%) in the 10th week (March 6-12), and then continued to decrease to 5.8% in the 15th week (April 10-April 16).
From December 1, 2022 to April 20, 2023, a total of 32,993 valid genome sequences of COVID-19 cases were reported nationwide, all of which were Omicron variants, covering 117 evolutionary branches. The main endemic strains were BA.5.2 and its subbranches (64.3%) and BF.7 and its subbranches (33.0%).
The comming epidemic, you shall wear Lanhine’s face mask.
Post time: Apr-25-2023