London - Sana
Health data revealed that seasonal influenza infections decreased during the outbreak of the Corona epidemic in an unprecedented way compared to past years and decades.
According to the British Daily Mail newspaper, experts at the University of Oxford suggested that this decline will take place as people take more stringent measures as a result of the outbreak of the Corona epidemic, especially the care to sterilize and deal with surfaces and potential sources of infection, noting that the matter is not limited to Britain only, but the total number of infections with this decrease Seasonal virus in all countries of the world.
The experts pointed out that seasonal influenza infections were almost non-existent during the recent period in Britain, where they decreased by 95 percent, which is unprecedented for more than 130 years, indicating that in the second week of January, which is one of the worst periods of the seasonal virus, the reporting of influenza-like symptoms decreased Doctors have about 1.1 in every 100,000 people, compared to 27 five years ago.
The head of the Royal College of General Physicians in Britain, Martin Marshall, considered that the measures of spatial distancing and a great focus on hygiene due to the lockdown imposed in the country to contain the Corona epidemic contributed greatly to curbing viruses such as the virus that causes seasonal influenza.
Marshall pointed to another factor, which is that people in Britain have received the seasonal influenza vaccine more during the past year, at a time when the World Health Organization confirmed that seasonal influenza was much less virulent in all countries of the world during the time of Corona.