Amid a rise in hospitalisations of children due to pneumonia in China, India has reported no cases of mycoplasma pneumonia - the pathogen suspected to be behind the surge in China - in the 611 samples tested since January 2023.
The Union health ministry issued a statement clarifying that among the 611 samples analysed by the Department of Microbiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, no mycoplasma pneumonia cases were detected.
This testing was part of the Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR's) comprehensive respiratory pathogen surveillance, primarily focusing on severe acute respiratory illness (SARI), which accounted for about 95 percent of the cases, conducted through real-time PCR. ICMR serves as India's apex medical research body.
The health ministry's statement followed a media report suggesting that between April and September 2023, AIIMS Delhi had identified seven bacterial cases associated with the recent surge in pneumonia cases in China.
AIIMS did not respond to questions from Business Standard.
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