Five deaths associated with COVID-19 were reported in the first week of this year. The virus killed two men and three women aged between 62 and 82, IPN reports.

The National Public Health Agency noted that 833 cases of COVID-19 were registered in Moldova from 1 to 7 January, 80 of which in the Transnistrian region. The situation is similar to that of the last week of 2023, with 28.6 cases per 100,000 people. Eighty-one cases of the total number were confirmed in children.

During the same period, 54 cases of seasonal influenza were recorded, mostly in Chisinau. The flu affected mostly children aged 0-4 years – 18 cases, 65 years and older – 13 cases, 30-64 years – 12 cases.

Since the beginning of the monitoring period, October 3 to January 7, 213 cases of influenza, more than 91,000 cases of acute upper respiratory tract infections and over 5,400 cases of severe acute respiratory infections were reported.

Specialists recommend to further take protective measures, such as keeping social distancing, avoiding crowded places, observing hygiene rules, including hand hygiene and respiratory hygiene, ventilating enclosed spaces, wearing masks in medical institutions and seeing the family doctor when the first symptoms of infection appear, such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, muscle pain, rhinorrhea or stuffy nose, headache, weakness and tiredness.