Precautions in China to avoid rare infantile hepatitisChina's General Customs reported that it activated a mechanism to prevent the entry and spread of the unknown etiology hepatitis that mainly affects minors in some twenty countries.

Beijing.- This body ordered deepening health statements, monitoring of body temperature, and medical check-ups for travelers from the affected nations arriving at any point of entry to the national territory.

The measures will be applied with greater rigor to children and adolescents with symptoms such as abdominal pain, vomiting, or diarrhea, and some hospitals were also designated to treat such cases.

According to the National Health Commission, China has so far not reported any patients with rare hepatitis, but continues to monitor the issue and is gathering as much information as possible to be prepared in time and to know how to proceed in the event of detection of the pathology.

More than 200 cases of the disease were reported this month in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Slovenia, France, Ireland, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Romania, as well as in the Americas and Asia.

The European Union health authorities indicated that no hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E viruses were identified during laboratory tests, but the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, was found in some samples. (PL)