Union Health Ministry on November 26 directed State Governments to ensure that the trends of influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) be closely monitored by the district and State surveillance units of Integrated Disease Surveillance Project, particularly of children and adolescents.
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The action comes following the recent reports indicating a surge in respiratory illness in children in northern China in the past few weeks.
