The number of patients with acute respiratory infections will continue to grow in the near future, said Mi Feng, an official representative of the State Committee for Hygiene and Health of the People’s Republic of China. According to him, this is due to the fact that respiratory pathogens of different types overlap each other, TASS reports.
In the near future, the number of acute respiratory diseases in China will continue to grow, this is due to the overlap of different types of respiratory pathogens, explained Mi Feng.
As a rule, most recorded cases of acute respiratory infections are associated with influenza, he clarified. At the same time, some patients experience rhinovirus, pneumonia and adenovirus.
Chief researcher at the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, virologist Anatoly Altstein, meanwhile, said that Russians should not be afraid of any new viruses. This is how he commented on the news that citizens began to fall ill with an unusually long cold. According to him, in this case we may be talking about coronavirus, which cannot be detected using tests. Despite the increased number of cases, there is no need to talk about the threat of a new pandemic, the virologist believes.
