ISLAMABAD: A health expert on Friday asked citizens to use face masks and wash their hands to avoid contraction of the influenza virus as it is easily transmissible from an infected person to others.
Dr Halar Shaikh, a general physician told a private news channel that most patients are complaining of high fever, runny nose, cough, body pains, headaches and sore throat due to the influenza virus.
Shaikah advised the Infected people to stay home for at least 24 hours; limit contact with others and avoid travelling.
Earlier, a senior official of National Institute of Health (NIH) told media that it is not COVID-19 that is making people sick these days in Pakistan.
He said the surveillance and testing at the NIH indicates it is H3N2 sub-type of Influenza-A which is making people sick in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, many other parts of the country.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) targeting Children
According to the NIH officials among children, it is Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) which is leaving them sick across the country.
They advise people to take precautionary measures, including coughing etiquette, to prevent themselves from contracting any virus.
Health experts has asked people not to use antibiotics for the treatment of flu, saying that they had found good results of an antiviral medicine Tammy Flu among adults.
