Testing for suspected cases of H7N9 will be included in Beijing's flu monitoring network, the city's Health Bureau said on Monday.
It means hospitals are supposed to test all highly suspicious flu cases for H7N9 virus from now on and report confirmed cases to health authorities regularly. From April 1 to May 20, the city received reports of 39 cases of pneumonia with unidentified causes, of which one case was diagnosed with H7N9 infection.