Romania reports 18 flu death

18:00, 19.01.2019

The flu season’s death toll reached 18 in Romania, according to the Romanian Health Ministry.

According to Xinhua News Agency, From Dec. 31 to Jan. 6, 53,000 cases of acute respiratory tract infections (RTI) were recorded in Romania, up 9.1 percent year-on-year, according to statistics published by the National Center for Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases on Jan. 10.

Experts attributed the rise in RTI cases to dramatic changes in temperature, advising people to eat more vitamin-rich food and wash their hands regularly.

Romanian Health Minister Sorina Pintea has noted that none of those who died of flu in Romania were vaccinated. “Every death is worrying us,” she said.

The only measure that can prevent flu is vaccination, Catalin Apostolescu, spokesman of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Matei Bals in Bucharest, was quoted as saying by local media.

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