The number of acute respiratory infection cases – clinical flu, acute upper respiratory tract infections and pneumonia – in Romania for the week January 13 – 19 is standing at 85,279, up 38.1% from the previous week, and there were also five more confirmed influenza deaths, the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) reported on Thursday.

The number is also up 1.6% from the same week of the previous season (123,464). The variation in addition to the calculated average of 101,231 cases in the last five seasons, excluding pandemic seasons, was 23.9%.

According to INSP, 6,994 cases of clinical influenza were reported at national level in the same period, as against 6,981 cases in the same week of the previous season and 5,876 in the previous week and 189 cases of laboratory-confirmed influenza.

Since the beginning of the season, the following have been reported: 767 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza, of which 490 cases of unsubtyped influenza A virus, 171 cases of influenza B virus, 92 cases of influenza AH1 virus, 14 cases of influenza AH3 virus, 13 co-infections of influenza virus with SARS-CoV-2, 18 co-infections of influenza virus with RSV.

As of January 19, 1,133,929 people vaccinated against influenza were recorded in the National Electronic Vaccination Register (RENV).

AGERPRES