Worrying increase in combined flu and COVID infections in the EUthe call “Fluorone“. The Romanian authorities claim that the number of people suffering from simultaneous cases of both viruses is increasing. There have even been a case of triple infection with a third respiratory disease.
Health authorities say it’s hard to get a clear idea of how widespread the problem is.
“Anyone who has gone through the flu knows what that state of headache is, which makes you lie down, when we talk about flurona, it is a sum of all these symptoms. And these symptoms reach very high intensities. You cannot know without testing,” explains Adrian Marinescu, director of the Matei Bals Institute of Infectious Diseases in Bucharest.
Across Europe, experts have been warning for weeks of a possible overwhelming wave of COVID and similar viruses in the coming months, and some countries are already struggling. People are urged to take precautions, such as getting booster shots and wearing masks in crowded places.