The epidemic in Shanghai has continued to expand. So far, at least 300 children under the age of 6 have been infected, causing social concern. (Image credit: Getty Images)
[See China March 29, 2022 News]Shanghai EpidemicContinue to expand, so far at least300Children under the age of 6 are infected, and a study in Hong Kong found that children infectedOmicronSubtype variant after BA.2mortality rateis the common flu7 times。
According to China’s National Health Commission’s news on the 28th, 1,219 new cases were confirmed in Japan and 4,996 asymptomatic infections were newly diagnosed in China on the 27th, with a total of 6,215 cases. Among them, there were 3,450 cases of asymptomatic infections in Shanghai, accounting for about 70%.
The Central News Agency reported that the outbreak in Shanghai is mainly due to the Omicron subtype variant BA.2. Wu Qianyu, a first-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said on the 27th that from the 1st to the 26th, a total of 53 confirmed cases under the age of 6 were admitted in Shanghai, accounting for 6.4% of all confirmed cases; 252 asymptomatic cases were infected, accounting for all asymptomatic cases. 2.6% of those infected.
According to a study published by a number of experts at the University of Hong Kong on the 21st, a study of children infected with the Omicron subtype variant BA.2 has not been peer-reviewed. The study collected data on children infected with the virus in Hong Kong in February this year, when 1,147 children were hospitalized and four died, aged between 11 months and 9 years old. Four of all infected children were not vaccinated.
The researchers compared the data with children infected with the original Wuhan pneumonia virus strain from 2020 to 2021, and children infected with viruses such as general influenza from 2015 to 2019.
The results of the study found that the mortality rate of hospitalized children infected with Omicron subtype variant BA.2 was 0.35%, which was 7 times the mortality rate of hospitalized children infected with general influenza. After children infected with BA.2, the proportion of children requiring treatment in the intensive care unit of children is twice as high as that of general influenza infection.
On the 27th, China Business News quoted an expert from the Shanghai Children’s Medical Center as saying that according to Shanghai’s population, the current proportion of children diagnosed is not high, but compared with the epidemic in the past two years, it is much higher, because the Omicron virus variant strain Relatively easy to infect children. Symptoms in children infected with Omicron are generally milder than in adults, and severe cases are rare.
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