Overview

• Guangdong provincial health authorities have confirmed more than 6,500 mostly mild chikungunya cases as of July 30 with no fatalities reported.
• On August 2, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised its travel advisory for China to Level 2, advising enhanced mosquito-bite prevention measures.
• Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection identified a 12-year-old boy as its first imported chikungunya case since 2019 after he returned from Foshan’s Shunde district.
• The Hong Kong Housing Authority and Food and Environmental Hygiene Department bolstered vector control by increasing traps, applying larvicidal oil, clearing standing water and conducting community outreach.
• Vice-Premier Liu Guozhong ordered Foshan officials to tighten port health quarantines and expand mosquito-control campaigns to interrupt local transmission channels.