Maharashtra on Wednesday reported two deaths due to the H3N2 influenza virus. H3N2 is a sub-type of the influenza A virus. Some of the common symptoms of the H3N2 virus include persistent coughing, fever, throat ache, body ache, nausea and vomiting.
One of the two patients, 72-year-old AK Mazi, was a resident of Nagpur. He had been hospitalised on March 2 after facing breathing difficulties and died on March 9. Mazi was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
The second person was identified as Chandrakant Sapkal, a 23-year-old first-year medical student in Ahmednagar. He had tested positive on March 11 and died the next day.
“He tested positive for Covid-19 as well as H1N1 and H3N2 viruses,” Health Minister Tanaji Sawant told the Maharashtra Assembly, according to PTI.
H1N2 is also a sub-type of the influenza A virus.
Last week, two persons in Karnataka and Haryana had died due to the H3N2 influenza virus.
On Wednesday,…
