At least one victim of the coronavirus pandemic will not be mourned.
A woman with a protective mask is seen, as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues in Munich, Germany, April 20, 2020. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert
Influenza killed 152,000 people in Europe in the 2017-18 winter. So far, COVID-19 has taken nearly 100,000 lives across the continent, albeit in a shorter period of time. Laboratories have been overwhelmed with COVID-19 and have had fewer flu samples at their disposal, meaning they “may not have the full picture of the virus circulating in the last part of the season,” said Pasi Penttinen, a senior flu expert at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control .
The problem is unlikely to affect next winter’s vaccine for the northern hemisphere because its composition was agreed in February, Penttinen said.
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