China Announces Measures to Fight Wave of Respiratory Infections in Kids

What’s new: China’s cabinet announced a raft of measures Friday to tackle a wave of respiratory infections that has hit children particularly hard, as it could last until spring.

Local authorities should strengthen health surveillance and other disease control measures in key places such as schools and kindergartens as cases of influenza and mycoplasma pneumoniae have been on the rise in China since October, according to a notice from the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism.