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Recently, many netizens said that they tested positive again during the dog days of summer. The reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Disease Control and Prevention Bureau that the number of cases of new coronavirus infection in Guangdong Province was 8,246 in June and 18,384 in July, an increase of more than 10,000 cases. The number of infected cases has increased, and at the same time, the proportion of XDV series variants has increased. However, both respiratory disease epidemiological warning experts and clinical experts told reporters that this is a normal peak of new coronavirus infection, and citizens do not need to be nervous and worried. The new coronavirus is weak in virulence, and the cases are sporadic, with no obvious family clustering, which also shows that the virus is less contagious.

New reports of severe cases and deaths of novel coronavirus infection nationwide

The number of new coronavirus infections in Guangdong increased by more than 10,000 cases in July

According to the national novel coronavirus epidemic situation in July released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, from July 1 to July 31, 203 new severe cases and 2 deaths were reported in 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (including 0 deaths due to respiratory failure caused by novel coronavirus infection and 2 deaths due to underlying diseases combined with novel coronavirus infection).

It is worth noting that the positive rate of COVID-19 in influenza-like cases continued to rise from 8.9% in the 27th week (July 1st-July 7th) to 18.7% in the 30th week (July 22nd-July 28th). In other words, COVID-19 infection is on the rise.

Showing the same trend, the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention released an overview of the province's statutory infectious disease epidemics in June and July 2024, showing that the number of new coronavirus infections in Guangdong Province was 8,246 in June and 18,384 in July, an increase of more than 10,000 cases.

However, as a sentinel hospital for monitoring influenza-like cases in children across the province, Yin Genquan, chief pediatrician at the Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, said that no signs of an increase in children's COVID-19 infections have been found in the outpatient clinic. Professor Han Zitian, co-director of the Large-Scale Respiratory Disease Epidemic Forecasting and Early Warning and Medical Big Data Artificial Intelligence Application Laboratory, believes that "from observation, this is a normal peak of COVID-19 infection, and there is not much change, so there is no need to worry."

Trends in the positive rates of COVID-19 and influenza viruses in influenza-like cases in sentinel hospitals across the country

Omicron variants are the main ones, and the proportion of XDV series variants is increasing

The number of cases is rising, so has the virus mutated? According to information released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, compared with June, the effective genome sequences of the new coronavirus in local cases in my country in July were all Omicron variants, and the main prevalent strains were JN.1 series variants and XDV series variants.

The reporter saw that the proportion of XDV series variants increased from 25.1%-32.9% in June to 38.8%-43.6% in July, an increase of about 10%. "Don't be nervous, the current new coronavirus is not that virulent." Yin Genquan believes that the pathogenicity of the virus has been greatly reduced, and the public does not need to worry.

This has also been recognized by respiratory experts. Yan Wensen, deputy chief physician of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at Guangdong Provincial Second People's Hospital, told reporters, "Recently, we occasionally encounter new coronavirus patients in the outpatient clinic. The symptoms are relatively mild, mainly young people, and most of them have symptoms such as sore throat, fever, and muscle aches. Moreover, the cases are often sporadic, without obvious family clustering. This also shows that the virus is less contagious."

By reporter Zhang Hua

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