Experts are warning that this year's flu season is much more difficult than in previous years. The GIS estimates that the number of illnesses since September has already settled around two million, and the infectious season will continue for several more weeks, even if we assume that the peak of the illnesses is behind us. Over the past six months, about a thousand people have died from influenza, although the actual number of deaths may be significantly higher.
"Influenza in the onslaught" - experts of the National Program for Combating Infectious Diseases discussed the epidemiological situation, but also the problem of influenza vaccination, in an intervention briefing on Thursday. A problem because, despite changes in vaccine funding, the vaccination rate of the population has declined and to return to pre-pandemic COVID-19 levels. About 5 percent of the population has been vaccinated since September. Particularly worrisome is the decline in the vaccination of seniors. - We were approaching 25 percent at the time of the pandemic, at the moment vaccinate...
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