With Covid-19 taking a backseat for now, the city is witnessing a sudden spike in influenza and swine flu cases. City doctors are of the opinion that the rise happened over the past couple of days and these infections were hardly a cause of concern around this time last year.

Fashion designer and Sion resident, Kanchan Racharla, 28, has just recovered from high-grade fever, body ache and cold. “It all started with my three-year-old daughter getting a fever and cold. While she was recovering, I developed the infection followed by my husband and both my parents. Fever was as high as 102-103 degrees Celsius and the body ache was so bad that I couldn’t get up from bed,” she said. The Racharla family was advised RT-PCR tests, all of which came negative.