Since mid-October, northern China has reported an increase in "influenza-like illnesses" compared with the same period in the previous three years, according to WHO.
Some social media users have also posted photos of children doing homework while receiving intravenous drips in the hospital.
Chinese authorities attributed the spike in illnesses to the lifting of these hard-line restrictions, which prevented the spread of other illnesses as well as Covid, in addition to an autumn cold snap and the circulation of known pathogens including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza and mycoplasma pneumonia.
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