Rhinovirus remains prevalent in school teenagers during fight against COVID‐19 pandemic.

Rhinovirus remains prevalent in school teenagers during fight against COVID-19 pandemic Keywords: rhinovirus; HRV; SARS-COV-2; COVID-19 EN rhinovirus HRV SARS-COV-2 COVID-19 76 79 4 02/06/21 20210301 NES 210301 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is now being a disaster, as of November 3, 2020, the World Health Organization have reported 46 million cases and 1.2 million deaths globally.1 Studies have reported that respiratory infectious diseases such as influenza, varicella, herpes zoster, rubella, and measles are suppressed during the fight against the pandemic of COVID-19,2-4 and the respiratory infection.5 However, while schools in Guangzhou have been reopened, we have monitored several outbreaks of unknown fever, and later proved to be human rhinovirus (HRV) infections. We next conducted a I i SP 2 sp test and found that the rate of patients with runny nose was statistically higher in the HRV positive patients than that of in the HRV-negative patients (Table 2). [Extracted from the article]