COVID-19: Beijing's Coronavirus cases rise

[Tohto]

On 7/23/2023 at 3:27 PM, Fcw75 said:

Oh I see but why we still so ley chey? Have to go their office.

China visiting here only need online applications for visa.

For my travel there last month,  online registration for appointment late April, appointment only mid June. Passport collection 4 days later. 

At least for us finally back to visa free from 26 Jul.

[Playtime]

On 7/23/2023 at 2:56 PM, Sosaria said:

Nowadays no need to pretend to work. Can always do real work, become phv driver or food delivery  

 

男人难做。。。。

If cannot provide for family... pressure 

[Sosaria]

On 7/23/2023 at 3:50 PM, Playtime said:

男人难做。。。。

If cannot provide for family... pressure 

Better than pretend to work which is zero income 

[Didu]

"tan gu gu" 😁

WHO chief pushes China for ‘full access’ to determine COVID-19’s origins: Report

The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged Beijing to offer more information on the origins of COVID-19 and is ready to send a second team to probe the matter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday (Sep 17).

"We're pressing China to give full access, and we are asking countries to raise it during their bilateral meetings - to urge Beijing to cooperate," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the newspaper.

The WHO chief's comments come as health authorities and pharmaceutical companies across the world have been racing to update vaccines to combat newer emerging coronavirus variants.

Ghebreyesus has for long been pressing China to share its information about the origins of COVID-19, saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table.

The virus was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, with many suspecting it spread in a live animal market before fanning out around the world and killing nearly 7 million people.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/china-who-chief-covid-19-determine-origins-3777196

[mersaylee]

I thot oredi settled...😂

[Ender]

Let's hope this is nothing and contained. Cannot go thru another global lock down.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/china-disease-children-hospitals-pneumonia/

Mystery child pneumonia outbreak reported in China hospitals

Alert issued over reported epidemic of 'undiagnosed pneumonia' among Chinese children

 

BySarah Newey, GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY CORRESPONDENT, IN BANGKOK22 November 2023 • 12:43pm

 

Chinese hospitals have been “overwhelmed with sick children” as an outbreak of pneumonia escalates in cities across the country, including Beijing, according to reports.

ProMed – a large, publicly available surveillance system which monitors human and animal disease outbreaks worldwide – issued a notification late on Tuesday detailing a reported epidemic of “undiagnosed pneumonia” in children. 

It was a ProMed alert in late December 2019 that brought a mystery virus later named Sars-Cov-2 to the attention of many doctors and scientists, including senior officials at the World Health Organization.

The latest post, based on a report from the Taiwanese outlet FTV News, said that hospitals in the capital Beijing and Liaoning – almost 500 miles northeast – were struggling amid an influx of children sick with pneumonia. 

“Many, many are hospitalised,” Mr Wei, a Beijing citizen, told FTV News. “They don’t cough and have no symptoms. They just have a high temperature (fever) and many develop pulmonary nodules.”

 

 

In an editor’s note, ProMed said: “This report suggests a widespread outbreak of an undiagnosed respiratory illness ... It is not at all clear when this outbreak started as it would be unusual for so many children to be affected so quickly. The report does not say that any adults were affected suggesting some exposure at the schools.”

The alert added that more definitive information is needed to determine the cause and scope.

However, the outbreak could be linked to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, also known as “walking pneumonia”, which is reportedly surging as China enters its first winter without its stringent Covid-19 lockdown in place. 

Other countries, including the UK and US, saw similar surges in diseases such as RSV and flu once pandemic restrictions were lifted, as years of suppressed circulation hit immunity among the population. 

Symptoms of walking pneumonia – which generally affects young children – include a sore throat, fatigue, and a lingering cough that can last for weeks or months. In severe cases, this can eventually deteriorate into pneumonia. 

Last month, local media reported that hospitals nationwide were seeing an increase in infections, with clusters of cases often emerging in schools and nurseries. 

“It is the first wave of mycoplasma pneumoniae infections since most Covid-19 containment measures were lifted at the beginning of this year,” Zhou Huixia, director of the children’s medical centre at the Seventh Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, told China Daily.

“The wave has appeared particularly ferocious since the National Day holiday in early October,” she said. “Compared to previous years, we found more patients with mixed infections, drug resistance and lobar pneumonia.”

She added that the “intense” wave of infections is expected to peak in November, and may coincide with an uptick in other infectious respiratory diseases that were suppressed during lockdowns. 

Last month, Li Yuchuan, director of the outpatient department of Beijing Children’s Hospital, also told China Voice that the hospital has been struggling with paediatric respiratory diseases this year.

“It has been running at a relatively high level. The first peak occurred from mid-to-late February to late March, when influenza was the main cause; the second peak occurred in May, when there were a variety of pathogens, such as RSV; the third peak appeared in September,” said Dr Li, adding that the facility has had to boost capacity to cope. 

The recent surge in Mycoplasma pneumoniae has also raised concerns about growing antibiotic resistance, as the bacteria is increasingly sidestepping macrolides – a preferred class of drug – and China has the world’s highest rates of resistance. 

A study from February 2022 found that macrolide resistance was identified in more than 80 per cent of mycoplasma pneumoniae found in children hospitalised with the bacteria in China. 

Yet Chinese experts stressed that very few children have died from “walking pneumonia” to date. 

“There is a steady number of patients developing severe cases, but there are very few critical cases, and there are no related deaths so far,” Hua Shaodong, a paediatrician at the Beijing Children’s Hospital, told China Daily. “The average days in hospital for hospitalised patients is around seven to 14 days.”

[Jamesc]

Why all the virus always 

come from China?

[bsswan]

Quote

However, the outbreak could be linked to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, also known as “walking pneumonia”, which is reportedly surging as China enters its first winter without its stringent Covid-19 lockdown in place. 

Other countries, including the UK and US, saw similar surges in diseases such as RSV and flu once pandemic restrictions were lifted, as years of suppressed circulation hit immunity among the population. 

 

I think these are the key lines.

[Sosaria]

On 11/23/2023 at 2:02 AM, Ender said:

Let's hope this is nothing and contained. Cannot go thru another global lock down.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/china-disease-children-hospitals-pneumonia/

Mystery child pneumonia outbreak reported in China hospitals

Alert issued over reported epidemic of 'undiagnosed pneumonia' among Chinese children

 

BySarah Newey, GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY CORRESPONDENT, IN BANGKOK22 November 2023 • 12:43pm

 

Chinese hospitals have been “overwhelmed with sick children” as an outbreak of pneumonia escalates in cities across the country, including Beijing, according to reports.

ProMed – a large, publicly available surveillance system which monitors human and animal disease outbreaks worldwide – issued a notification late on Tuesday detailing a reported epidemic of “undiagnosed pneumonia” in children. 

It was a ProMed alert in late December 2019 that brought a mystery virus later named Sars-Cov-2 to the attention of many doctors and scientists, including senior officials at the World Health Organization.

The latest post, based on a report from the Taiwanese outlet FTV News, said that hospitals in the capital Beijing and Liaoning – almost 500 miles northeast – were struggling amid an influx of children sick with pneumonia. 

“Many, many are hospitalised,” Mr Wei, a Beijing citizen, told FTV News. “They don’t cough and have no symptoms. They just have a high temperature (fever) and many develop pulmonary nodules.”

 

 

In an editor’s note, ProMed said: “This report suggests a widespread outbreak of an undiagnosed respiratory illness ... It is not at all clear when this outbreak started as it would be unusual for so many children to be affected so quickly. The report does not say that any adults were affected suggesting some exposure at the schools.”

The alert added that more definitive information is needed to determine the cause and scope.

However, the outbreak could be linked to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, also known as “walking pneumonia”, which is reportedly surging as China enters its first winter without its stringent Covid-19 lockdown in place. 

Other countries, including the UK and US, saw similar surges in diseases such as RSV and flu once pandemic restrictions were lifted, as years of suppressed circulation hit immunity among the population. 

Symptoms of walking pneumonia – which generally affects young children – include a sore throat, fatigue, and a lingering cough that can last for weeks or months. In severe cases, this can eventually deteriorate into pneumonia. 

Last month, local media reported that hospitals nationwide were seeing an increase in infections, with clusters of cases often emerging in schools and nurseries. 

“It is the first wave of mycoplasma pneumoniae infections since most Covid-19 containment measures were lifted at the beginning of this year,” Zhou Huixia, director of the children’s medical centre at the Seventh Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, told China Daily.

“The wave has appeared particularly ferocious since the National Day holiday in early October,” she said. “Compared to previous years, we found more patients with mixed infections, drug resistance and lobar pneumonia.”

She added that the “intense” wave of infections is expected to peak in November, and may coincide with an uptick in other infectious respiratory diseases that were suppressed during lockdowns. 

Last month, Li Yuchuan, director of the outpatient department of Beijing Children’s Hospital, also told China Voice that the hospital has been struggling with paediatric respiratory diseases this year.

“It has been running at a relatively high level. The first peak occurred from mid-to-late February to late March, when influenza was the main cause; the second peak occurred in May, when there were a variety of pathogens, such as RSV; the third peak appeared in September,” said Dr Li, adding that the facility has had to boost capacity to cope. 

The recent surge in Mycoplasma pneumoniae has also raised concerns about growing antibiotic resistance, as the bacteria is increasingly sidestepping macrolides – a preferred class of drug – and China has the world’s highest rates of resistance. 

A study from February 2022 found that macrolide resistance was identified in more than 80 per cent of mycoplasma pneumoniae found in children hospitalised with the bacteria in China. 

Yet Chinese experts stressed that very few children have died from “walking pneumonia” to date. 

“There is a steady number of patients developing severe cases, but there are very few critical cases, and there are no related deaths so far,” Hua Shaodong, a paediatrician at the Beijing Children’s Hospital, told China Daily. “The average days in hospital for hospitalised patients is around seven to 14 days.”

Kind of missed lockdown days. Not necessarily a bad thing. Very peaceful, could focus on personal interests, WFH. Work-wise operate at the minimum, due to inability to meet face to face

[mersaylee]

I miss the drive as if i own the roads...hear pee por pee por also no need to give way becos so many lanes for the pee por to choose...😁

[Sosaria]

On 11/23/2023 at 10:46 AM, mersaylee said:

I miss the drive as if i own the roads...hear pee por pee por also no need to give way becos so many lanes for the pee por to choose...😁

I remember having to return to office for urgent matter during lockdown. Drove all the way to other end of the island, the roads were like post apocalypse nuclear war movie or zombie attack. Felt like will smith in 'I am Legend' or kevin costner in the 'Postman'

Then I sped too fast on a flyover and am reminded that i was not alone. Caught by speed trap radar gun. Love letter from LTA arrived soon after.

A great time to work, most non-essential wayang things no need to do as due to lockdown.

Only bad thing was no "entertainment"

Edited November 23, 2023 by Sosaria

[Maxus-MIFA9]

On 11/23/2023 at 9:06 AM, Jamesc said:

Why all the virus always 

come from China?

East spread Viruses whereas West spread War.... 

Which is more Deadly ?  

Viruses can cure but war means death or disfigured 

Edited November 23, 2023 by Picnic06-Biante15

[inlinesix]

On 11/23/2023 at 12:51 PM, Picnic06-Biante15 said:

East spread Viruses whereas West spread War.... 

Which is more Deadly ?  

Viruses can cure but war means death or disfigured 

Same same but different.

A lot of ppl died before a cure was found.

[Sosaria]

The mycoplasma pneumonia is nothing unknown. One of my kids caught it when young, develop respiratory problem but no need to be warded, just antibiotics can cure. That was before covid.

[mersaylee]

On 11/23/2023 at 12:20 PM, Sosaria said:

I remember having to return to office for urgent matter during lockdown. Drove all the way to other end of the island, the roads were like post apocalypse nuclear war movie or zombie attack. Felt like will smith in 'I am Legend' or kevin costner in the 'Postman'

Then I sped too fast on a flyover and am reminded that i was not alone. Caught by speed trap radar gun. Love letter from LTA arrived soon after.

A great time to work, most non-essential wayang things no need to do as due to lockdown.

Only bad thing was no "entertainment"

Have lah...everyday I 捣蛋 morning soft boil, noon time hard boil, evening pan fry...then clean or mod bicycle...karaoke without music...😂

[Lala81]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/china-respiratory-illness-outbreak-children-3940886

 

 

[Blueray]

France export bed bugs.

China export virus.

Left wing people... ☢️

[Jamesc]

How dare you!

China has been having wars when the US were red indians and Europe were still in the dark ages!

China invented war first!

You never heard of the romance of the three kingdoms?

China is the first for everything ok! Compass, mirror, gun powder, smelting swords, walls.

Military tactics - never heard of Sun Tsu Art of War? 

On 11/23/2023 at 12:51 PM, Picnic06-Biante15 said:

East spread Viruses whereas West spread War.... 

Which is more Deadly ?  

Viruses can cure but war means death or disfigured 

 

Edited November 23, 2023 by Jamesc