🇨🇳🦠📹 — Over the past days, an emerging large outbreak of pneumonia appeared on Mainland China, with pediatric hospitals located at the Chinese Capital, Beijing, and in Liaoning (Southern Manchuria) being overwhelmed with sick children, causing on many schools to be suspended.

According to local reports, the lobbies of main hospitals at the outbreak could be linked to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, also known as “walking pneumonia”, which is reportedly surging as Mainland China enters its first winter without its Zero COVID-focused lockdown in action

➡️ However, first reports of pneumonia cases in children in Mainland China appeared on October 24, 2023, as reported by China Daily, as Zhou Huixia, director of the children's medical center at the Seventh Medical Center of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital, said during an interview with China Daily that the number of mycoplasma pneumoniae infections were rising rapidly increasing since August.
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"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.