Foshan terminates Chikungunya fever L3 emergency response
The Level III emergency response to the Chikungunya outbreak in Foshan, Guangdong province, was terminated on Tuesday, as the city entered a lower sporadic period of the disease, according to local authorities.
As of Monday, Foshan, the hardest-hit area since July, has maintained fewer than 50 new reported cases of Chikungunya fever per day for nine consecutive days, according to data from the local government.
"Based on the evaluation criteria provided by the national disease control task force and information released to the public by the National Health Commission, Foshan has entered a low-level sporadic phase of the outbreak," said Wen Xi, vice mayor of Foshan, during a news conference on Tuesday.
The strategy for prevention and control of the disease will shift from emergency response to routine management, according to Wen.
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