The first case of influenza A H1N1 of this epidemic season has been recorded in Lviv region, said Natalia Timko-Ivanchenko, director general of the Lviv Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention, on Monday, UNN reports.
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"For the first time in this epidemic season, a case of influenza A H1N1 was registered in Lviv region. The patient was treated at the Lviv Regional Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital. The epidemic threshold has not been exceeded. Vaccination continues!" Timko-Ivanchenko posted on Facebook.
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According to the data of the Central Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health, earlier in the week of October 7-13, in Cherkasy region, during the examination of samples from patients with suspected influenza, fragments of RNA of influenza type B viruses were detected in one case.
According to the Public Health Center, during the epidemic season, from September 30 to October 27, 2024, 476,738 people (1.3% of the country's population) suffered from SARS , which is 13.8% less than in the same period of the 2023-2024 season. Since the beginning of the current epidemic season, 9,264 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed among the total number of patients with SARS, which is 1.9% of the total number of reported cases of SARS.
Since the beginning of the current epidemic season, the number of deaths from influenza and ARVI is 35; all cases occurred among people who tested positive for COVID-19.
As of October 27, according to routine epidemiological surveillance, SARS-CoV-2 viruses dominated among positive laboratory results in 82% of cases, while other influenza and respiratory viruses (parainfluenza, adenoviruses, RS viruses, rhinoviruses, bocaviruses, coronaviruses OC43, 229E, NL63, HKU1) were detected in other cases.