CCTV News (News Network): The National Health Commission held a press conference on January 12 to introduce the relevant situation of respiratory disease prevention and control. A relevant person in charge of the National Health Commission said that at present, all the prevalent respiratory pathogens in my country are known pathogens, and the level of influenza activity is expected to gradually decline in the middle and late this month.
Monitoring shows that the number of patients with fever clinics and emergency departments nationwide showed a certain upward trend, but overall it was lower than the level of the same period last year, and there was no obvious shortage of medical resources. Since October last year, the National Health Commission and other departments have made arrangements in advance, carried out daily monitoring, and continuously dispatched and allocated medical resources such as medical personnel, drugs.
A relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology introduced that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology sorted out the production capacity and output of respiratory diseases-related drugs, and overall the supply is sufficient and the market is stable. At present, there are a certain number of commonly used therapeutic drugs for respiratory diseases in the central and local medical reserves, which can be used for emergency calls.
Relevant experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention introduced that the epidemic intensity of influenza in most provinces is at a moderate level, and the upward trend has slowed down. Respiratory infectious diseases in winter and spring are still showing an alternating or superimposed epidemic situation, all caused by known pathogens, and no new infectious diseases have appeared.
