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Apart from flulike symptoms like fever, cold and malaise, H3N2 cases are also complaining of digestive issues like vomiting and diarrhoea, resulting in hospitalisations some times. Diarrhoea can become a serious issue if it continues for over 24 hours leading to dehydration, experts warned.While this is a typical flu season, some doctors reported seeing such ca ses as early as December first week last year. “While typically flu (caused by influenza A and its variants like H3N2) is not severe, we are seeing increase in severity primarily because of people being protected from the influenza virus in the last three years. Due to Covid-19 appropriate behaviour, including mask, social distancing and hand hygiene, people did not get the virus. When we get infected with the virus every year, it causes formation of antibodies and adds to herd immunity. Not being infected for 2-3 years has led to asituation where we do n ot have the antibodies of the virus,” said MV Rao, general physician.

A 20-year-old man was arrested at Kempegowda International Airport on Friday night after he was caught smoking mid-air in the toilet of an aircraft flying from Assam to Bengaluru. The passenger has been remanded in judicial custody and sent to Bengaluru central prison.

Bihar’s Grand Alliance government has allowed relaxation in duty hours for Muslim employees during the holy month of Ramzan, prompting strong reactions from opposition BJP which claimed it was a “first” for the state and asked why Hindus weren’t given similar facilities in festivals like Ramnavami.However, Friday’s circular allowing the one-hour relaxation in entry and exit timings for Muslim staff said the order was, in fact, passed in December 2000.

A training aircraft crashed in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday afternoon, killing both pilots — captain Mohit Thakur from Himachal Pradesh and V Maheshwari, a trainee from Gujarat.The plane, a Diamond DA-40, operated by the National Flying Training Institute (NFTI), had taken off from Birsi airport in Gondia district of Maharashtra, and crashed approximately 40km away in a dense forest in Balaghat.

The sessions court of Kotdwar in Pauri Garhwal district on Saturday fixed charges on the three accused -- Pulkit Arya, Saurabh Bhaskar and Ankit Gupta -- in the sensational Rishikesh resort murder case of 2022 in which a 19-year-old receptionist was allegedly killed after “she refused to give special services to a VIP guest at the resort”. The three men were brought to the court under heavy security amid protests near the premises.