In Ukraine, a feature of the 2022/2023 epidemic season was the incidence of influenza - a pandemic influenza A virus that came to us in 2009, the so-called cousin of " This was told by the epidemiologist Fyodor Lapiy.

“The peculiarity of this season is not even that it (flu - ed.. ) has returned, but in what we are now talking about the so-called twindemia, this is when two epidemics occur simultaneously. Specialists started talking about twindemia in the spring of 2020. We were ending the flu season, and COVID-19 came to its " Then there was already an answer to the question of the so-called co-infection. The consequence of such a co-infection is a more severe course of the disease and a higher risk of death,"

The specialist noted that, like any other influenza virus, it is dangerous primarily for risk groups - pregnant women, the elderly and children of the first years of life..

As the epidemiologist notes, this season the flu came to us early. Cases of diseases began to be registered in the second half of October and there were many of them.

According to the Public Health Center, during the first week, 128,652 people fell ill with SARS and influenza, of which 47.7% were children under the age of 17.. Two deaths due to flu reported. In total, since the beginning of the epidemic season, five people have died from complications of the disease, which was confirmed by a PCR test..