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After battling with Covid-19 fever for the last two years, most Indian cities are now reeling under a bout of fever cases caused by dengue, malaria, swine flu among others.
"Of all respiratory illnesses that we are seeing in patients now, about 20 per cent are non-Covid19 viral infections," said Dr Khusrav Bajan, Consultant Physician & Intensivist, Department of Medicine and Critical Care, PD Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai.
As such the city has seen a 2-3 fold jump in swine flu cases in the last one month, doctors estimate.
Bajan says that of the hospitalised cases with fever now, roughly 20 per cent are non-Covid-19 viral infections, around 5-10 per cent cases are of typhoid, another 5-10 per cent cases
