Lima (ANTARA) – Peru’s Ministry of Health on Thursday (6/1) reported the first death of flurona, which is a combined infection between flu and coronavirus, involving an 87-year-old patient with a congenital disease who was not vaccinated against COVID-19.
The death was one of three cases of flu detected in northern Peru’s Amazonas region, according to researcher Cesar Munayco of the ministry’s National Center for Epidemiology, Disease Prevention and Control.
The other two cases, namely a child and a patient aged 40 years, have received a complete vaccine for COVID-19, Munayco said.
Those infected experience symptoms such as cough, sore throat and other common symptoms, he said.
Munayco urged the public to be injected with COVID-19 and influenza vaccines because vaccination can “reduce the risk of death”.
“It is important to take this into account, because we are currently facing a massive outbreak of H3N2 influenza in forest areas of Peru, such as Loreto, San Martin, Amazonas and Ucayali,” he said.
Peru on Tuesday announced the third wave of the pandemic, accelerated by the arrival of the Omicron variant in December.
So far authorities have confirmed 309 cases of Omicron in the South American country.
Source: Xinhua
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