At about 1:20 p.m. on January 8, Ms. Xu, a parent living in Pudong New Area, came to Shanghai Children's medical center with her 5-year-old daughter. "We just found a case of class B in our kindergarten, and I also took my daughter to test it." Ms. Xu said that recently, many children in her daughter's kindergarten class have common symptoms such as cold and cough, and many people ask for leave to rest at home.
On the same day, in the waiting area of the outpatient department of Pediatrics in Shanghai Children's Medical Center, there was no vacancy, many parents and children were wearing masks.
On the evening of January 8, pan Hao, director of the acute infectious disease prevention and Control Department of Shanghai CDC, said in an interview with the surging news reporter that according to the influenza like case monitoring of the center, at present, in the influenza epidemic strains in Shanghai, influenza B virus Victoria accounts for 60% and influenza A virus H3N2 accounts for 30%, but at present, there is no large-scale influenza outbreak trend.
Tian Dan, director of the outpatient office of Shanghai Children's Medical Center, also said that in the past more than one month, pediatrics, respiratory department and other departments have become "hot spots" for treatment. Children with fever, cough and asthma have increased significantly. Since the end of December 2019, the number of outpatient and emergency departments in the hospital has continued to rise, but the proportion of serious cases received is very low.
Chen Le, a doctor in the outpatient department of general internal medicine of the hospital, presented a set of data to the surging news reporter. From December 20, 2019 to January 4, 2020, the number of patients increased significantly, basically maintained at 1300-1500 per day, while at the beginning of December, the number of patients per day was still 400-900.
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