Xu Wenbo, head of the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, said last week that China plans to track the virus centers around three city hospitals in each province.

In December, a total of 31 Omicron subvariants were found to have been imported into China, including BQ.1, XBB and other subvariants that spread rapidly overseas, said Xu.

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Xu Wenbo, the director of the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said real-time epidemiological data show no ...

Xu Wenbo, head of the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention [Photo/china.com.cn] China has detected over 130 ...

Xu Wenbo, an official with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters new mutations would occur but played down concerns. "New strains' immune escape ability becomes ...

More than 130 sublineages of the coronavirus' omicron variant were detected in China in the past three months, Xu Wenbo, the head of the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention ...

Tracking China is closely watching omicron subvariants circulating in the country, Xu Wenbo, director at the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, said December 20 at a ...

Xu Wenbo, head of the virus control institute at China’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said last week that hospitals across the country would collect samples from patients and ...

This month, Xu Wenbo, a top official at the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the institution was developing a national genetic database of Covid samples.

Wang Guangfa, a respiratory expert from Peking University First Hospital, warned that Beijing may experience a spike in severe COVID-19 cases over the next fortnight.