China fighting horror virus outbreak as hospitals overwhelmed by infection

Hospitals across China are overwhelmed with patients battling an airborne virus across 17 provinces - with children among the hardest hit and the capital Beijing going through a peak flu period

Hospitals in China are fighting against high rates of the influenza virus which has been sweeping the country in recent weeks.

Reports from China of growing cases of the H3N2 influenza virus have hit the country, impacting multiple hospitals across the nation ranging from cities like Beijing and Tianjin to the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Guangdong, Fujian, Shandong, Shanxi and others.

The fears of an outbreak have been bolstered as Peng Zhibin, a researcher at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Communist Party of China, announced China's influenza infection rate had enter