The media office of the Ministry of Public Health issued a statement explaining that “recording cases of double infection, ie influenza virus and SARS-CoV2 virus, is expected and not worrisome. This is because double infections with respiratory viruses are normal and can occur.”
The statement added that “in Lebanon, as in the rest of the world, cases of double infection were detected, and according to the routine procedures followed, samples of infected cases are examined at the National Influenza Center, and the Ministry of Public Health sends samples of infected cases to a reference laboratory in the United Kingdom.” To be tested, according to the quality control and strain exchange program, which has been in place since 2015.
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