Foshan, the Guangdong city hit hardest by the outbreak, had 5,155 confirmed cases as of Sunday. The city upgraded its public health emergency response on Thursday to level III, representing a “relatively major” public health event. China has a four-tier public health response system, with level representing the most serious category.
Prompting elimination efforts and causing US health agency to take notice.The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it was considering a travel notice for China because of rising numbers of Chikungunya infections in the country.This followed a surge in the mosquito-borne disease in China, which has recorded over 5,000 cases since the beginning of last month, with most of them in the southern province of Guangdong.
