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Romania is facing two health crises at the same time - flu and coronavirus, Digi 24 TV reports today, noting that there are already patients in whom both diseases have been confirmed, and these cases are known under the name "flurona".

The TV station reminds that the term "fluron" was used at the beginning of 2022 by health professionals to describe the first case of simultaneous infection from seasonal flu and Covid-19.

Catalin Apostolescu, manager of the Institute of Infectious Diseases "Matei Balsh" in Bucharest, told Digi 24 that the institute has patients with various combined infections - covid with influenza, covid with adenovirus, covid with respiratory syncytial virus.

"There have been no registered cases so severe as to put the patients' lives in danger. From a medical point of view, it is nothing extraordinary, the patient takes antiviral preparations for each situation separately," explained Apostolescu.

A child from Yambol became infected with influenza A and COVID-19 at the same time

As a precaution against infections, he advises people to regularly ventilate the premises, and if symptoms appear, to contact the family doctor in the first 24 hours.

He also recommended taking a flu test or a rapid test for Covid-19 within the first 48 hours of the onset of symptoms, BTA writes.

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