According to the results of monitoring the incidence of acute respiratory viral infections in the population of Lviv region, 11,640 cases of SARS were registered in the previous week.
The intensive indicator of ARVI incidence, including COVID-19, is 9% higher than the epithreshold – 434.07, which corresponds to the average level of epidemic activity of ARVI incidence. In the incidence structure, 52.6% are 6,125 children under 17 years of age. No deaths due to influenza were registered.
“Since the beginning of the epidemic season, 13,029 people have been vaccinated against influenza in the Lviv region, 6,287 of them from the medical and epidemic risk group. 328 people fell ill with the acute respiratory disease COVID-19. No fatalities were registered. 57 patients were receiving inpatient treatment. 1,102,787 people were vaccinated against coronavirus with one dose, 1,038,833 people received the second dose, 202,837 people received the first booster, and 21,021 residents of Lviv Oblast received the second booster,” said Nataliya Ivanchenko, an expert of the Department of Epidemiology.
Doctors also emphasize to take care of the comfort temperature, choose clothes according to the weather, ventilate the room often, make sure that the shoes are dry and stay at home at the first sign of a cold.