Seasonal influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

During the 2019 novel coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, limited data from several countries suggested reduced seasonal influenza viruses' circulation. This was due to community mitigation measures implemented to control the pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We used sentinel surveillance data to identify changes in the 2020 influenza season compared with previous seasons in Bangladesh.

Methods

We used hospital-based influenza surveillance (HBIS) data of Bangladesh that are generated year-round and are population-representative severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) data for all age groups from seven public and two private tertiary care level hospitals data from 2016 to 2019. We applied the movin

SUBMITTER: Akhtar Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8330950 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature