Over 400,000 Romanians have been vaccinated anti-flu till now. These are people belonging to risk groups for whom vaccination is free, announces the Ministry of Health. For now, no cases of influenza have been confirmed in Romania.
Some experts worry that this year’s wave of flu infections will overlap with a wave of COVID.
Dr Emilian Popovici, vice president of the Romanian Society of Epidemiology, told Europa FM that, in theory, this is possible, but he believes that the spikes of disease caused by the two viruses will rather alternate:
“Theoretically it is possible that this happens, so much so that both viruses, the influenza virus and the SARS-CoV-2 virus, give disease spikes at the same time, but in practice it is less likely in the sense that so-called viral interference intervenes. The two viruses will work at the same time, they will infect at the same time, this is more than certain, but they will give spikes of these infections one after the other “.
How the Covid pandemic can evolve
Doctor Emilian Popovici was asked in the Deșteptarea program if dangerous mutations of SARS-CoV-2 can still appear:
“There are those who say that everything is over, the pandemic is over, as they say, or only the virus knows, so this virus can generate variants or sub-variants that raise more important problems than Omicron variants. A variant of this aggressive one. it can generate a significant wave of disease, as we can deal with a less significant disease wave, a mild wave, if Omicron or Omicron-related variants continue to evolve. “
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