Romania Declares Flu Epidemic
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published January 30, 2019 | 07:38 PM
Romanian Health Minister Sorina Pintea declared on Wednesday a nationwide influenza epidemic
As of Tuesday, 54 people had died from flu-related complications in the country, an increase of one and a half times in ten days.
"We can say at this point that the third consecutive week of the epidemic has been recorded," Pintea told a press conference, explaining that the epidemic had to be officially declared because the number of flu cases had exceeded the estimates for three weeks in a row.
According to her, the south of the country is the most affected.
Pintea called on people not to panic. "I do not think we have to make a hysteria out of this, it is a disease that circulates seasonally during the winter," she said in a live tv show late on Tuesday, stressing that the health authorities have been acting to address the flu outbreak as an epidemic for days now.
"There is no question of quarantine, quarantine is adopted in extreme situations, a situation we do not live in, we live a normal situation," said Adriana Pistol, director of the National Center for Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control within the National Institute of Public Health.
Medical experts stress that the best way to prevent influenza is to get a vaccination and it is never too late to do so. However, the vaccination rate in Romania is only 8 percent, which places the country third from last among the European states after Estonia and Latvia. The vaccination rate is the highest in Britain, at 71 percent.
The health minister said those people who died from the flu in the current season had "one thing in common: they were not vaccinated."During the 2017-2018 flu season, over 100 people died of influenza in Romania.
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