CCTV News: On January 12, the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of respiratory disease prevention and control.

Wang Liping, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that it is the current season for respiratory infectious diseases to occur, and various pathogens may lead to respiratory infectious diseases. Monitoring shows that influenza is the main disease that causes patients with acute respiratory infections in medical institutions to visit.

Monitoring data shows that influenza has been in a seasonal epidemic recently, and the epidemic intensity in most provinces is at a moderate level. At present, the upward trend of influenza positivity rate has slowed down. As primary and secondary schools in various places have successively started holidays, it is expected that the level of influenza activity may decline in mid-to-late this month.

Overall, this winter and spring will still show an alternating or superimposed epidemic trend, but they are all known pathogens and no new infectious diseases have appeared. The overall epidemic intensity and medical pressure will not be higher than last year.