“Tracking the incidence of influenza has either stopped or is falling in many countries, there has been a sharp decrease in the exchange of information about the flu due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Interfax quoted him as saying.

He noted that this is due to the overload of laboratories and the re-qualification of personnel for the fight against coronavirus.

Gebreyesus also said that the number of patients with coronavirus infection COVID-19 in the world exceeded 7.8 million, more than 430 thousand died.