India is 'closely monitoring' China's influenza outbreak amid mild Covid scare

India is 'closely monitoring' China's influenza outbreak amid mild Covid scare

A day after a pneumonia 'epidemic' in China alarmed World Heath Organization nearly four years since Covid was first detected, India's union health ministry said that it is closely monitoring the cases and clusters of respiratory illness there.  China has since specified the outbreak as that of Influenza A virus subtype H9N2. It was first reported in 1988 and a total of 86 cases of human infection with H9N2 viruses were reported until recent out

'Not Like Covid But Cocktail of Viruses': India 'Closely Monitoring' China's Pneumonia Outbreak

"There is a low risk to India from both the avian influenza cases reported from China as well as the clusters of respiratory illness. India is prepared for any kind of exigency that may emerge from the current situation," the ministry said in a statement